The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-27 00:00:00

when none anticipated the heavy loss Italy and
Europe were so soon to sustain.
The Magnates met to-day somewhat later than
the Deputieg. The Rescript and the minutes of the
proceedings of the Lower Chamber were communi-
cated to them. Count Louis Karoly, who is ober-
gespan of the county of Nyitra (the dissolution of
which committee is daily expected, by reason of
the resolute manner in which it has ignored the
unconstitutional Central Government) rose and said
it was the time to adhere in !every respect to yes-
terday's protest, and, that as the Chamber was
threatened with forcible dissolution—a perfectly
unmerited menace—he proposed to submit to the
command. He concluded his short speech with a
cheer for Hungary, which met with ready and
hearty response. The House then separated.
In yesterday's sitting of the Lower Chamber,
Deputy Bonis, after proposing a vote of thanks to
the President for his exertions in the service of the
Chamber, a vote which was unanimously agreed
to, made some remarks as to the narrow limits
within which. the Chamber, owing to its incom-
pleteness, had been compelled to maintain itself
with respect to legislation, and concluded thus :
" We know already, and that not merely by re-
port, that the hours of the House of Representa-
tives are numbered, and that its dissolution is at
hand. But as it cannot be legally dissolved until
the taxes are voted and the accounts examined, I
call the attention of the hon. House to the neces-
sity of taking its measures previously to dissolu-
tion."

M. Deak then rose amid loud applause both
from the Chamber and the galleries—the participa-
tion of the latter proving an unusual degree of ex-
citement, for I have observed, in all the sittings of
the Hungarian Diet at which I have been present
that the spectators abstained from the practice to-
lerated in some Southern European Chambers of
making demonstrations of their feelings of appro-
bation or disapproval. 'theta was a gale of wind
blowing, and the canvass awning over the skylight
of the Chamber had got loose and flapped to and
fro, making so much noise that the first part of M.
Deak's speech was scarcely audible in the gallery.
It is reported as follows :

" The dissolution of the Diet is to be anticipated,
and is more than probable, although we as yet have
no official news of it. If affairs were Constitution-
ally conducted, one would know beforehand the
period and the manner in which the diet would be
closed. But, as experience shows that this matter
is not constitutionally treated by the supreme power,
so we are ignorant at what moment the dissolution
may happen. In accordance with the hon. deputy
who last spoke: I hold it to be important and even
necessary that, in these last moments of the Diet, we
should utter our protest againbt all that hitherto has.
been, or hereafter may be, illegally done. And
since to-day is ours, while to-morrow is still in the
hands of destiny, we should not delay and postpone
that which to-morrow, perchance, we may be unable
to do. (General movement of assent.) I abutain
from further details, but I hold it necessary that the
House should resolve on a Protest, and, with its
permission I will read the project of one which
appears to me suitable."

There wore cries of " Hear," and M. Deak read
as follows :

"As the Diet can legally work only upon the basis
of the Hungarian Constitution, it did not delay to
re-establish and fully secure that basis.

" The integration a the Diet prescribed by law,
and the re-establishment of the responsible Ministry
as well as of the suspended laws, were before all
things essential to enable the Diet to occupy itself
with legislation. Those measures therefore have we
before all things urged, but our reiterated addresses
remain without result, and so the scope of action of
the Diet was limited to the protection of the rights
of the country, whose energetic defence was its
right and its duty even in its incomplete state.
"The most high Rescript has in fact broken the
thread of the mutual parliamentary negotiations,
since by essentially and arbitrarily transforming
our hereditary Constitution in contradiction with
the fundamental treaties, it sought to restrict our
deliberations within the limits and to the ground of
the Imperial Patent, whereto we cannot legally-
resign ourselves.
" That most high Rescript convinced us that his
Majesty had not the intention to re-establish our
Constitution in the sense of the Pragmatic Sanction,
to which we, however, can never be unfaithful. And
our said conviction will be further strengthened if,
instead of the integration of the Diet and re-estab-
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lishment of parliamentary government, p;ese;ib;d
by law, there shall ensue such a dissolution of th©

Diet as. is in contradiction with the prescriptions
of the law.

" According to the 4th Article of the Laws of 1848

the Diet cannot be' dissolved until the accounts of

the expired year and the Budget for the coming one
have been laid before it and been resolved upon by it.
" But this law is not and cannot be fulfilled until
the responsible Ministry is re-established and the
Diet integrated ; for, until that be done, no legal.
Government exists to lay the Budget before the
Diet, which itself is incapacitated from passing a
Budget by refusal of that integration strictly re-
quired by the law.

" The article of law referred to also orders that
the new Diet should meet within three months or
the dissolution of the old one. If, therefore, the Diet,
after the dissolution, is not called together again
within the legally prescribed time, the prescription
of the law will hereby be again violated.
" We are, therefore, compelled to regard before-
hand as unconstitutional, and as a further continua-
tion of the absolute system persevered in for 12
years, every illegal proceeding of the kind. We are
certainly unable to resist force, but we solemnly
protest against all that in such a manner may be
done, and declare—that we firmly adh ere to all
our legitimately existing laws, and there fore to the
laws sanctioned in the year '4B, and vihich have
not been altered by the Diet ; that vie will regard
as a breach of the Constitution every act of the
authorities that is in contradiction to them."
Having read this protest,. M. Deak moved its
adoption, and laid it on the table.
" I consider it unnecessary (he continued) to state
the motives of the proposition. Our only weapons
are the law and justice of our cause. It is an old
saying, and one which, as history shows, hardly
ever deceives, that in the end victory is always for
the just cause, and thereupon must we build all
our hopes. In order safely to tread that ground,
we must not and cannot ever, 'under any pretext,
quite the footing of perfect "legality, for that is the
only field which, without armed
power and against
armed power, we shall be able, to maintain. (Much
applause.) The now
Diet will probably be dis-
solved; all those who were representatives of the
people become simple ci.'cizens of our common.
country. I return to private life with the pure
conviction that, as the people's representatives, we
have done, to the best of our knowledge and con-
science, that which we owed to electors and to our-
selves, and at the same time I cherish the persua-
sion that in this respect the jurisdiction
and also individual citizens will faithfully follow
the example of the Diet., (Applause.) While hold-
ing fast by the basis of the law, abiding by it, and
never departing from it, they will neither grant
nor obey anything which is against the law, or
which deviates from it in any way whatever. The
jurisdictions (M. Beak referred to the provincial
councils and authorities) will work, so long as they
exist, in the sense of the law they will not commit
suicide, they will wait with tranquillity the blows
of fate. Individual citizens ought to adhere to the
law. The law gives'such tranquillity to the mind
that, so long as one holds by it, one can calmly look
forward to the most grievous events, and thereby
is that quality called forth which is the chiefest in
respect of suffering—namely, to endure with dig-
nity. That is only to be acquired through the con-
sciousness that we;ure acting strictly according
,c;'
law; I recommend my project to the hon. House.