The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-19 00:00:00

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safety, for the success of the expedition was at**kedl $
and, if this failed, it could but expose the men to
the gravest dangers.
This act of repression had, moreover, all the con-
sequences that might be czacted from it. It struck
terror into the Earopeans, who had put themselves
at the head of the natives, and by depriving the
latter of their chiefs it reduced them to helpless-
ness. From that moment discouragement spread i
over all the country, and the expedition, which up
to the morning of the Bth was still beset with ob-
stacles and dangers,-could now hope to attain its ob-
ject almost without resistance. Our soldiers saw bands
of the Hyenguenes disperse at their approach, and
they did not find a single European any longer in
the ranks of the natives.

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On the 9th the expedition was finished. The go-
vernor aunouneed to the people his departure, and
at the same time told them he would grant them
no pardon unless they expelled a certain number of
Europeans mentioned in a decision he caused to b©
published, and unless they gave up the Karim chief
who boasted of having killed Captain Tricot. The
expeditionary corps then re-embarked for Kanela,
which it left on the 15th, crossing New Caledonia
from east to west on its way to Fort-de-France.

PROTESTANTISM IN HUNGARY.

VIENNA, DEC. 14.

The danger of a conflict between the Imperial
authorities and the Hungarian Protestants daily
increases, as the latter, altogether ignoring the edict
published by the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs
on the Bth November, continue to hold superinten-
dential assemblies, and to petition the Emperor to
suspend his Patent Law of the Ist September.
Travellers from Pesth state that the " Reformed
(Calvinist) Superintendency on this side, of the Da-
n4be" b)et on Monday last, and unaniMously,
solved "to present to his Majesty a petition exactly
like that drawn up at licesmark, some six or seven
weeks ago." My.4.4formantsntetl, thorwardeAtioted,
but the Wiener Zeitung of this morning contains the
following extract from the official Buda-Pesth
Gazette :

" PESTH, DEC. 13.

" Several of the evening papers of yesterday made men-
tion of a Superintendential Assembly, which was said to
have been held (angeblach abgeh,alten) yesterday morning
by the former superintendency of the Helvetic (Calvinist)
Confession on this side of the Danube.

" As the proposed sitting of the former Superintendentiel
Convent of the Helvetic Confession was, in accordance with
the ordinances contained in the Imperial patent of the let
September, 1859, prohibited by Gabriel von Bathory, the
deputy of tho Seperintendent, the transactions (verhand-
lungen) which took place in the Calvinistic Church during
Divine Service cannot be said to bear the character of a
superintendential convent.

- " Legal measures have already been taken."
The excitement of the Hungarian Protestants
must be very great, as " Seniorat" assemblies are
being held in all parts of the kingdom. At Balassa-
Gyarmatb, in the Neograde county, there was a day
or two ago a great Lutheran Assembly, at which it
was unanimously resolved "to decline to accept"
(ablehnen) the Imperial Patent of the Ist of Sep-
tember, and also the Ministerial ordinances which
accompanied it. Several persons, as well ecele-
siastici as laymen, addressed the assembly, and they
one and all based their objections to the Imperial
octroi on Paragraph IV. of the'2Gth article of the
law of the year 1791. As usual, the assembly deter-
mined humbly to petition his Majesty the Emperor
to suspend his patent, and to deign to order the con-
vocation of a Synod. On the 6th inst. the Senior
Joseph von Kossanyi strongly urged the representa-
tives of the Protestants in the county of Bars to ac-
cept the Imperial patent, but the Assembly, as one
man, declared its resolve to petition his Majesty to
suspend it. To-morrow there is to be a so-called
Districtual Convent in the former " Montan" (min-
ing districts) Superintendency, and it hardly admits
of a doubt that the Assembly will imitate its fellows,
and protest against the Imperial patent. On Mon-
day the German Lutherans residing at Pesth assem-
bled, read the Patent Law from beginning to end
(which consists of 58 long paragraphs), and then
unanimously resolved to decline it, "and to hold
firmly to the Law of 1791,which secures self-govern-
ment!.,to. t3ll (,Protestant Church."
POlitical and religiotui agitation go hand in hand
in Hungary, and consequently no one is much sur-
prised to learn that the editor of the Beligio, a paper
published by the St. Stephen's Association, has been
obliged to resign, because he recommended to the
public an organ called Ma: 'tan yja (Witness of the
Times), which is to appear at the new year. It
appears that it will be the business of the Idok,
'tamija, which is advertised as a " Catholic political"
paper, to disturb the good understanding which now
prevails between the different confessions. The
Roman Catholics and the Protestants in Hungary
have almost always lived in harmony, but some
years ago the Lutherans and Calvinists did not pull
well together. A society of Hungarian ladies in-
tends to present 52 arm-chairs to the National
Museum at Pcsth. On each of these chairs,whieh are
to be placed in the state room of the Museum, wilibe
embroidered the arms of a Hungarian county. It
may be observed that there are 49 counties and 3 se-
separate districts, Jazygien and Great and Little
Cumanien, in Hungary. Some of the ladies residing
in Transylvania intend to imitate the example of their
Hungarian sisters, and, consequently, the Museum
in Klausenburg will soon be in possession of a set
of chairs with the arms of the eight Transylvanian
counties, and of one Hungarian and five Szekler
districts embroidered on them. Until now the Pro-