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HUNGARY.

PESTH, JULY 22, AFTERNOON.

The Royal Rescript in reply to the address of the
Hungarian Diet was read to-day in the Lower
House, and was listened to with manifest impa-
tience. The house was crowded with members. A
resolution was passed ordering the Rescript to be
printed.

The Upper House having assembled the Royal
Rescript was read amid profound silence. Only a
few members were present. The Rescript com-
mences by stating that the relation of Hungary to
the whole monarchy is, and for three centuries has
been, de facto a real union in as far as war, finance,
and foreign affairs are concerned, and that when
the constitution was granted to the country the con-
stitutional necessities of the whole monarch were
naturally taken into consideration.
The independent internal administration of Hun-
gary, it says, is not thereby endangered, but on the
contrary, will be strengthened. The laws of 1848
cannot be re-established, because they are incom-
patible with the present Constitution.
The Diet is requested to proceed to a revision of
these laws, to send representatives to the Council
of the Empire in time to take part in the financial
discussions which will come on in August nest, to
come to an understanding with the Croatian Diet
in reference to the relation of Croatia to Hungary,
and finally to draw up a law relative to the use of
the national language and the development of the
non-Hungarian inhabitants.
The Rescript declares the union of Hungary with
Transylvania to be for the present impracticable,
and says :---" The affairs of Servia shall be arranged
on the basis of the Resolutions of the Servian
National Congress."

In conclusion, the Rescript guarantees an
amnesty on the occasion of the coronation of Francis
Joseph as King of Hungary.

The following is the text of the most important
part of this document :

" The Pragmatic Sanction formerly sought to
promote union and good understanding between
Hungary and the other countries of the monarchy.
The patent of October extended the constitutional
influence over a large number of questions. Hungary
will henceforth be governed according to its ancient
constitution, alike in form, system, and men. The
Emperor rejects the idea of an amalgamation, but

grants an internal autonomous administration, and
at the same time, dynastic, military, diplomatic,
ane financial unity with the rest of the empire. A
purely personal unity was the idea of 1818. Six
months after the promulgation of these laws civil
war broke out, and led to the total overthrow of the
constitution. The Emperor will spontaneously
restore the Hungarian constitution of the 20th of
October under the conditions necessary to the
development of the whole empire. The King
recognizes the laws of 1848 concerning the aboli-
tion of the privileges of the nobles, of corvees,
and feudal burdens, general admissibility to
public employments and to the possession of
landed property, that relating to the equity of taxa-
tion and recruiting, and, lastly, that relating to the
electoral rights of the lower classes ; but he cannot
sanction the laws of 1848 hostile to the rights of
the non-Magyar population of the HungartaniColln-

tries and to the Pragmatic Sanction, which must be
modified before negotiations are entered into on the
coronation diploma. The Diet is requested to be-
stow its attention upon this revision, it is besides
requested to bestow its attention upon the mode of
electing deputies to the Council of the Empire, ac-
cording to the fundamental law of the 26th of Feb-
ruary, and to send provisionally Deputies to the
present sittings of the Council of the Empire, in
order to protect the influence of the country upon
the general affairs which are to be debated and set-
tled in the course of August. The union of Hun-
gary and of Transylvania, determined upon in 1848
without the consent of the Romans and of the Saxons,
and in opposition to their wishes, fell to pieces almost
immediately. It is necessary, therefore, now to re-
establish in the first place the general representa-
tion of Transylvania. The relations of Croatia with
Hungary can only be resolved by an understanding
with the Croatian Diet. The Hungarian Diet is
summoned to devote its attention to those conditions,
the basis of which are the internal self-government
of Croatia, and its position towards the general Em-
pire, in accordance with the Federal union between
it and Hungary. It is summoned to take the ini-
tiative of a law guaranteeing the rights of the non-
Magyar inhabitants of Hungary. The Emperor
reserves the initiative concerning the rights of the
Serbs on the basis of the wishes of their National
Congress. The abdication of the Emperor Ferdinand
alluded distinctly to ' all the kingdoms comprised
in the Empire of Austria,' any further document
would be superfluous. On the occasion of the coro-
nation the King will keep in view the wish ex-
pressed that he should pardon political offenders.
He awaits the assembling of the Diet for the legal
settlement of the points indicated. In the mean-
while the laws connected with finance will remain
in force."