The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-28 00:00:00

THE SUN.

*DON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1861

The Emperor of AUSTRIA'S Message to the
Reichsrath is now before us in full ; a contempo-
rary's correspondent who witnessed its indignant
reception at the National Club or Casino in Pesth
characterises it very briefly :—" Nearly every liste
(he says) is a lie." Pretty well that of an Imperial
document ; he declares, however, " that a falser or
more treacherous document could hardly have been
devised." And he looks at it as a " provocation
which will put to the proof all the predetermined
patience and forbearance of the Hungarians." The
Vienna Reichsrath was of course subservient enough,
though even there a voice or two was lifted up to
point out the wrong done to Hungary; the majority,
however,were very well content that their decisions,
in the absence of nearly half the members who
should compose the assembly, were to be law for
the whole empire—Hungary, Croatia, and Transyl-
vania included. The Hungarians, however, will
see to that. Enforced, the Imperial edicts registered
by the Imperial Reichsrath may be ; obeyed, in
Hungary they never will be. The conceit of the
Germans will be met by the freeborn spirit of the
high-souled Hungarians; and though taxes may
be trampled out of freemen, they will not be paid
by them.

We shall probably before long have some com-
petent Hungarian comment on this audacious
document; meantime, even we, here in England
can perceive clearly that much of it is
what the correspondent referred to "says—" Nearly
every line a lie." A lie told too to an authority
which the Hungarians refuse to acknowledge, and
told audaciously in the face of Euro/ e. Let us
notice a few of the more obvious Imperial lies.
The very first paragraph is a web and tissue of lies
--with one exception—" the profound grief of his
NIAJEaTT," The " ancient institutions" of Hun-
gary are not " re-established"—the Diet being dis-
solved for insisting on their establishment; and the
attempt being made to enforce on Hungary a per-
fectly new institution which annihilates all the
glory and value of the ancient ones. The country
is not in an " intolerable condition," except as the
foreign, that is, Austrian troop,.make many a Hun-
garian's life almost intolerable. The country is
able to get out of its difficulties, such as they are, by
" its own ejorts." demands to
Indeed it only
be allowed to use its own efforts, and
that the Imperial efforts which cause all the
difficulties, should be withdrawn. There is no
" lamentable mistrust" no mistrust at all except
of Austria, and lamentable will it be for
the Hungarians, if they should cease to mis-
trust her. " Confidence in the administration
of justice" is not "shaken ;" but there can be no
confidence in Austrian injustice. " Anarchy" there
is none. The order is as perfect as it was in the
Italian Duchies. The only anarchy, in the literal
and etymological sense of the word, is that of the
Austrian civil and military interlopers in the
country, who, by order from Vienna, overturn law-
ful role in the country, and substitute for it
Imperial lawlessness. The " protestations against
the decrees of the Government" do not " enervate
the moral strength of the pleople ; on the contrary,
they aid in bracing them to a national quiet heroism
which makes them the admiration of all Europe, save
the Vienna Camarilla ; and we believe that even
those selfish tyrants are compelled in their inmost
hearts to admire the nation which all their politi-
cal and military torturings cannot induce to sur-
render their forefather's bequests and their ehildren's
r.gbtfal inheritance.
Tbus much of
the first paragraph ; and there is
not one
probably on which every Hungarian could
not comn-aena in
similar style. What more irritating
than theeecond pata.graph. It is based on " pardon-
ing " the Hungarians for abolishing the dynasty in
1849. The ll"ngar.
Leos will retort; the
ds our
dynasty nee Pardon for the unexampled I
treachery which compelled
to depose it; and
for the worse treachery and treason, if worse be
possible, which, after we had routed
INDISCH-
GRATZ, called in the Russian arms 3 to overwhelm
The paragraph speaks
-us by numbers. of our being
" brought back to our duty by force of arms"
--yes,
the Hungarian will bitterly reply :when your
arms could not force us back beneath the rule of 1

traitor Kin s, by force of Russian arms, not of
yourg;Ve were forced to submit to your illegal in-
flictions. We have done nothing as " duty," since
1849.

Further on the document says :—" His MAJESTY
has restored the Constitution of Hungary, its rights
and its municipal institutions. His MAJESTY has
done so under the reserve of one sitgle condition."
He adds : " The national autonomy and deve-
lopment of Hungary are not in any manner
whatsoever infringed upon by this reserva-
tion, for the constitutional deliberations in
common only bear upon questions relating
to military duties, political economy, and
the finances of the empire, while all other ques-
tions come under the authority of the Hungarian
Diet." We know of nothing in history which sur-
passes the cool, lying audacity of these smooth-
sounding sentences. _First, the bare fact of making
any " reserrve" at all, except as a matter of com-
pact and treaty with the Hangarians, gives a lie
,to the first sentence. The Constitution is not re-
stored if any part is annulled not by constitutional
means but by the arbitrary act of the monarch. It
might be a judicious alteration, but the principle of
picking and choosing at the discretion of royalty is
a principle which every Englishman knows to be
utterly incompatible with constitutional Govern-
ment.

But when we look, next, at what is reserved,
it is almost enough to make even an English school-
boy laugh when the EgrERoR talks of restoring
the ancient Constitution. The one reserve is the
right of voting the taxes for the kingdom of Hun-
gary ! It is to surrender to an assembly, of which
its representatives would form but a fourth part, and
whichis the mere creation of yesterday's Imperial
whim, its right to vote the national taxes. Think of
our House of Commons being told by her MAJESTY
that she wished to make certain Imperial changes.
That Canada, Australia, India, and then all the
lesser colonies, were to send deputies to an Imperial
Council, that these deputies would be four to one more
numerous than those sent by Great Britain; but,
n'importe, the old Parliament was left all its old
privileges, with one reserve—merely that of voting
the Imperial taxes and soldiers—that these, of
course, would be transferred to the Imperial
Council. This is really no caricature of the
plausible, but really treasonable, paragraph to
which we now advert.

But we will not just now weary our readers
with further comments. The substantial ques-
tion is, has the Emperor of AUSTRIA the right
to give a really new constitution to Hungary ;
and especially to give her one which destroys
her independent position, and reduces her to an
Austrian province. This is the whole ,point in dis-
pute. The Hungarians say, we are willing to be
your kingdom of Hungary,—your province of Hun-
gary we will never be. By force of arms you may
treat us as a province ; but by the force of our wills we
will never be provincials. You may,ifyoli. please,wh en
you have legally convened our Diet, Lay your pro-
posals before us—if agreeable to the nation we will
entertain them, if for its good we will accept
them ; but, no change shall be made in our relations
to the rest of the Austrian Empire by Imperial
diplomas, it shall result only from tb.e free action
of the country through its r.presentatives.
Perhaps we may yet return to this precious
aocument, and notice a few more of its shameless
lies and arbitrary assumptions. 1., t will have one
good effect. It will confirm the union of all parties
in Hungary in opposition to the Imperial and
German attack on its liberties.

One of the pleasantest episodes of last session
was consequent upon the Prime M inister's accep-
tance of the Lord Wardenship of the- Cinque Ports.
Everybody knew at the time that. it was, to all
intents and purposes, a purely honorary appoint-
ment. It brought no emolument R rith it. About
the only personal advantage of an y kind, beyond
the fact of its being a sort of public tribute to a man
of eminence, insured to its recipient upon its accep-
tance by him, is the circumstance that it places at
his command a very delightful sea.-side. residence—
to wit, Walmer Castle. That in divid.ual benefit,
accompanying the nomination of any one to be the
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Stanneries,
being enjoyable only, of course, to the full
after the Parliamentary campaign should have come
to a close. It was noticeable, however, almost im-
mediately upon the termination of the 'session, that
when the Lords and Commons generally were scat-
tering hither and thither upon their continental ex-
cursions—up the Rhine, away to the far East,
to the heathery solitudes of Scotland (for a
while to be solitudes no more), to the chalets of
Switzerland and elsewhere, as the whim of the
moment chanced to prompt—the noble Viscount,
the Premier, availed himself of the earliest oppor-
tunity of luxuriating in the possession of the only
substantial reward accompanying tiled otherwise
merely nominal recompense to a great and
honoured subject of the Crown—the Lord War-
denship of the Cinque Ports of E agland. It
might be purely figurative to think of himself
in any way as really Warden of Dover, Hastings,
Rye, Romney, Hythe, Sandwich, and Winchelsea.
But—however this might be—until his career
should be ended Lord PALMERSTON' had the
satisfaction of knowing that he was really and
truly the owner, the lord and master of
Walmer Castle. And so, as a matter of
course, away at once to Walmer Castle went the
new Lord Warden, in one of the early days of
this month of August. If but for the novelty of
the thing, it was more alluring to him doubtless
than an interval of repose in the old familiar
home-scenes at Broadlands.
When the appointment was first announced,
the session, the simple in-
fact Was received as a sort of
thi omx va et
ivoenr, ,
ofd u rt ihneg
Minister—in
pleasantry in the House
of Commons. The Prime
the very
practical joke or political pie
height of the session—had to appeal to his con-
stituents down at Tiverton. Why ? Because
he had been appointed, by the Sovereign, Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports I Members
even laughed when the writ was moved

for. It sounded like a bit of fun poked
at them unexpectedly—(notwithstanding the ex-
planation accompanying it) almost without why
or wherefore. There was the Treasury Bench left
for a time without its chief occupant upon it. The
great Government play was still to go on, for an in-
terval, with the part of HAMLET really left out, for
once, by particular desire. Viscount PALMERSTON
might still be First Lord of the Treasury, First
Minister of the Crown, First Fiddle in the Cabinet
Orchestra, First anything you please—but he had
no longer any right to cross the threshold of the
British House of Commons, much less to take his
seat, among his colleagues and subordinates in the
Administration, upon the Front Bench on the right
hand of Mr. SPEAKER, That is—he had no
right whatever of that kind—until the electors
of Tiverton could again be appealed to, until their
decision in his regard as " a fit and proper person,"
and so forth, could again be known. So that Lord
PALMERSTON, Prime Minister though he was, head
of the Government though he was, actually Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports ! though he was
1:---nay, it should be remembered, just precisely

because he was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
of England—had to quit London in the midst of
the Session; to journey down to the borough of
Tiverton, that had so often sent him up to Par-
liament ; to appeal to them again as a candidate
for their suffrages, as it happened as the one only
candidate for their suffrages—and to amuse all
England by having a tussle, there and then, with a
certain redoubtable, hard-headed, uncompromising
local Butcher. The veteran Premier proved himself
upon the occasion, as everyone might have confi-
dently anticipated could only be the case, one
too many for the Butcher—giving his bluff anta-
gonist more than one heavy back-throw, and
this, moreover, with the coolest nonchalant air

in the world committing his Radical Friend,
with the blue gingham frock and the steel appen-
dage, to be solaced
.in his discomfiture by that
true Homerie burst of " inextinguishable laughter"
that was soon echoing far and wide through all
England. That was the agreeable little episode
we have referred to, as having marked the accept-
ance by Lord PALMERSTON, during the course of
last session, of the purely honorary post of Lord

Warden of the Cinque Ports, After the session is
closed—the:new Lord Warden hastens down to his
picturesque residence of Walmer Castle down upon
the south coast. To-day—his lordship is duly and
formally installed in his new post. It is
interesting to remember at the moment of
Viscount PALMERSTON'S installation in this
old-fashioned, almost obsolete office, that as Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports of England, he
adds another illustrious name to a long list, a list
emblazoned with names not less illustrious than
those of Lord CAMDEN, of Mr. PITT, of Viscount
CASTLEREAGH, afterwards second Marquis of LON-
DONDERRY, of the great Marquis of WELLESLEY,
and of his yet greater younger brother, ARTHUR
Duke of WELLINGTON. The last Lord Warden,
the one who succeeded the Great Duke, was in con-
sequence of his broken health and foreshortened life
but for a very brief while Lord Warden—meaning
the late lamented Earl of DALHoUSIE, We will hope
from the vigorous vitality still happily visible in
the bodily frame, and equally recognisable also in
the intellectual activity of our veteran Premier,
that the term of his Lord Wardenship may be
far longer than that of his immediate predecessor
in the office, that it may rather emulate that of his
predecessor—facile princeps among the Soldiers, as
Lord PALMERSTON has shown himself to be facile
princeps among the Administrators of the Age.

Lord BROUGHAM recently spoke at Dublin in
terms of sincere respect and of well-merited praise
upon the subject of the past labours of Mr. M. D.
HILL, the Recorder of Birmingham. Upon his
past labours, that is, as a practical philanthropist.
Those commendations, falling as they did from the
lips of one, himself so venerable by his age, and so
illustrious by his acts, must of themselves have
come to Mr. HILL as an ample reward for all he
had either done or attempted to do. Possibly they
fell upon his hearing at the time they were uttered.
At any rate, if they did not, they must have come
to his knowledge immediately afterwards, For as
the fact proves to be, the Recorder of Bir-
mingham chanced about that time to be
in Dublin ; whether to recruit his broken
health by change of scene, or to attend the
Social Science meetings, by way of distracting his
attention from his sufferings we know not. There at
Dublin he has of late been however. And thence it
is that he has recently written in apology for
his non-attendance at a meeting lately holden at
Newton-Heath, a letter through which the work-
ing classes of England learn in a few plain
words what it is that a philosophic and benevolent
observer like Mr. M. D. HILL thinks
about this comparatively modern but rapidly
developing enterprize of co-operation. The last
part of this interesting document we cannot resist
the temptation of repeating here, for the simple
purpose of emphasising it, by repeating it. " Some
members of the working classes," writes Mr. HILL,
" have hastily and erroneously assumed that I am
an opponent of co•operation, and that I think
unfavourably and contemptuously of them-
selves and their fellows. To such opinions
mine are diametrically opposed. My belief
has ever been that the working classes
were capable of rising to a high standard of
moral and intellectual eminence, and that it was
the bounden duty of all whom the accidents of life
had placed in a higher social position than their
neighbour to do their best to aid and encourage
the latter in their progress. My share in this
good work has been but small, I know ; but it
has been commensurate with my abilities and
opportunities." He then adds this little auto-
biographic glimpse of himself. "At twelve
years of age," he writes, " I began to teach in
the Sunday schools of nay native town, and from
that timo to the present—more than half a century
—I do not think I am chargeable with having
neglected any means afforded to me of furthering
this great object. One truth, however, experience
has forced upon me. It is, that all which the
higher classes can do is as nothing to what you
can do for yourselves. And further, that the
interposition of those who, to use the language of
the world, are above you is not always unattended
with mischief, however well it is meant. Hence it
is that I look with intense interest on the pro-
gress and results of co-operation. Co-operators
are self-sustained in the strictest meaning of the
term. All responsibility rests upon themselves.
They are encumbered with no assistance, and
they are neither led nor misled by any guidance
but their own." These words are well worthy
of being taken to heart by the working men
of England, coming to them as they do
from a friend of theirs as earnest as MATHEw
DAVENPORT HILL, Recorder of Birmingham. Par-
ticularly, coming to them, as Mr. HILL'S advice
does, at an epoch in the development of the prin-
ciples of co-operation among the working classes,
when it is being applied at length to manufactures,
instead of being restricted, as hitherto, to the busi-
ness of co-operative stores.

Her Majesty spent several hours yesterday on the
magnificent Lakes of Killainey, which, from the large
barge, must
haveTphrees Queenente d
and
R flotilla of boats which followed in the wake of the Royal
ascenoeyoafl
pattyrern remarkable legaiety
and animation,farewell
to Lord Castlerosse in the evening, and proceeded to Muck-
ross Abbey, the seat of Mr. Henry Herbert.
Her Highness the Princess de Piombino and
suite have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Paris.
Married yesterday, at St. George's, Hanover-
square, Stanlake Ricketts Batson, Esq., of Horseheo.th,
Cambridgeshire, to Gertrude, eldest daughter of the Right
Hon. Henry and Lady Harriet Corry. The marriage was
strictly private, in consequence of the recent death of the
Dowager Countess of Delmore.
PRINCE ALFRED.—Among other on dits afloat
respecting the Prince's recent trip to Liverpool on board
the Arabia is one to the following effect :—His Royal
Highness was so exceedingly taciturn and distant to the
passengers generally, dining by himself when the others
were on deck, and enjoying a smoke in the most out-of•the-
way retreats, that a Yankee asked Major Cowell the rea-
son of such conduct. He was gravely informed that " the
Prince was acting under special instructions from the Bri-
tish Embassy at Washington." Subsequent]) Major
Cowell inTaired of the Yankee touching the American
matters, but was informed by him in reply, that he must
excuse him saying anything, as " the United States' Go-
vernment had particularly requested him to be reserved on
such topics." Major Cowell could not appreciate the to
qmoque.—Liverpool Albion.