The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-04 00:00:00

TION OF THE EMPIRE.

" 1. The Reichsrath forms the representation of
the Empire. The Reichsrath is composed of a
House of Peers (Herrenhaus) and a House of De-
puties.
" 2. The Princes of the Imperial House are, when
of age, members of the Upper House by right of
birth.
"3. The chiefs of certain aristocratic families
which have very extensive landed property will be
members of the Upper House. In such families the
dignity will be made hereditary by the Emperor.
"4. All Archbishops and Bishops who have
princely rank are members of the Upper House.
"5. The Emperor reserves to himself the right
of making distinguished ecclesiastics, scholars, and
scientific men members of the Upper House for life.
" 6. The House of Deputies will be composed of
343 members—that is, 85 for Hungary, 54 for
Bohemia, 20 for the Lombardo Venetian kingdom,
five for Dalmatia, nine for Croatia and Slavonia, 38
for Galicia and Lodomeria, 18 for Lower Austria,
10 for Upper Austria, three for Salzburg, 13 for
Styria, five for Carinthia, six for Carniola, five for
the Bukovina, 26 for Transylvania, 22 for Moravia.
six for Upper and Lower Silesia, 12 for the Tyrol
and Voralberg, and six for Istria, Gorice, Gradiska,
and Trieste.

"7. The members of the Reichsrath are to be
elected by the Provincial Diets. The elections to
be direct. If, for any reason, the Diets should not
send members to the Reichsrath, the Emperor will
order the appointed number of members to be elected
by the districts, towns, and corporations.
"8. The Emperor will choose the President and
Vice• Presidents of each Diet from among its mem-
bers. All other functionaries are to be elected by
the Diets.

" 9. The Reichsrath will be convoked annually.
" 10. In accordance with Article 2 of the diploma
of the 20th of October, 1860, the following matters
are to be within the sphere of action of the Reich-
srath :—(a) Matters connected with military con-
scription. (b) Matters connected with the currency,
public credit, coinage, banks empowered to issue
notes, customs, commercial matters, post, railroads,
and telegraphs. (c) All those financial matters
which concern the empire at large ; such as the
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budget, the State balance-sheet, the results of.
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manipulations of the finance department, the raising
of new loans, the conversion (eonvertirung
of )the real
of Statesig
debts, the sale, change, or mortgage
augmentation of the
property of the State ; the
of new ones. The
present taxes, and the imposition
tlrepealed in a
present taxes to be levied.un
consti-
tutional way. The National Det is under the
control of the Reichsrath.
" 11. All those legislative matters mentioned in
Artic:e 3 of the diploma of the 20th of October,
1860, which concern the whole empire—with the
exception of that part of it which belongs to the
Hungarian Crown—are within the sphere of action
of the Reichsrath. To this smaller (engerer)
Reichsrath- belong all those matters, with the
exception of those mentioned in paragraph 10,
which are not directly within the sphere of action
of the Provincial Diets.
" 12. The Government has a right inlay draughts
of laws before the Reichsrath. The Reichsrath has

* In the official part of the Wiener Zeitung it is said that
Baron Vay was not present at the final consultations, and,
being absent, "could not sign the Imperial patent."
t This paragraph proves that the Minister of State thinks
the Hungarians will refuse to send representatives to the
Reichsrath.