The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-23 00:00:00

Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original
comedy, entitled WOMAN ; or, Love against the World.
Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin,
Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray.
and Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with the Farce of MAGIC TOYS. Valentine,
Miss Lydia Thomson.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence a
7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

CA N TERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
Two Grand Selections from Operas, including UN BALLO
IN MASCHERA, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jongh-
mans. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The extraor-
dinary comic duet, " The Nerves," by Harvey and French,
Mr. Marshall in " The Excursion to Brighton," " Selina
Sly," and "In the Park." And Miss Harriet Coveney Every
Evening.
Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.AND
N.-) FINE ARTS GALLERY.—SAM COWELL,' the
Prince of Comic Vocalists, will make his First Appearance
since his return to England on MONDAY, the 2d of
September. Admission---Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is.

o X FOR D,
8, OXFORD-STREET.
The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and
brilliancy of lighting' of this noble building-, render it one of
the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro-
gramme is varied, and includes Selections from "La Tra-
viatq," "Un Ballo in Maschera," &c., (by a full company of
principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant
on the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone.
Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, Scotch Duets by the
Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the
highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. T P
he Comic
portion of the entertainment is supported by Messrs. M. .
Foster (In his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey,
Hall,
and
French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. and
vat l
Boxes,
sixpene,e ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private
10s. 6d.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
T Day ._Morning, 3h. 38m.—Afternoon, 3h. 54m,
' 4h. 24m,
To-moßuovr.-Morning, 4h. 9m.—Afternoon,

THE NVEA.THEIt.—Sux OFFICE, AUGUST 23, 1861
THEAMOMETEE, IN THE SHADE.
69—highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1881.

Austria has done what was expected—she has
asked time. Her political debt to Hungary she
cannot deny, or she would most certainly have
done it. Utterly bankrupt in argument as in purse,
she therefore says, six months hence perhaps we
may discuss the matter again. It is, however,

curious to notice the statements of the Rescript No,
11. with which the HAPSBURG and his Germans
dissolve the Hungarian Diet :-1. The Diet has not
obeyed the requests addressed to it. 2. No benefi-
cial action can be expected from the Diet. 3. It
has misunderstood its mission. 4. It has declared
that unless its demands are assented to further
negotiation is impossible. 5. These demands are
inadmissible. Therefore, 6. We find it necessary
dissolve the present Diet.
Such is the style in which two or three men in
Vienna lecture several hundred men at Pesth—the
style which a few amateur constitution-mongers
assume towards the representatives of the oldest
constitution in Europe ! The Hungarians could
easily fill up these brief notes. They have not
obeyed illegal injunctions, especially one to send
representatives to a Vienna Reichsrath, and thus
to merge the kingdom of their forefathers in a
German Archduchy. They could be guilty of no
act "beneficial" to the supreme authority of a
despot, and subsersive of their country's right to
require his obedience to their constitution.
They have not " misunderstood" but per-
fectly understood their mission—namely, that
for which their constituents elected them—to
preserve intact all their country's rights and privi-
ges. They have reduced their demands to the
lowest pOint which fidelity to their country per-
mitted, and it is those, therefore, who refuse those
demands who break off the negotiation. These
demands may be " inadmissible" by conspirators
against the liberties of Hungary; but not a single
reason can be shown why any one of them is not
strictly admissible, nay, binding, on the Kiag of
HUNGARY, in law. And, therefore, if the Emperor
of AUSTRIA, as King of HUNGARY, dissolves the
Diet on this account, it can only be because he sets
himself above all law ; because he refuses to appeal
to any compact, treaty, statute, or custom, and
simply says, eat pro rations voluntas. No
doubt the other despots, and despotieally minded
rulers of Europe, admire this firmness in the cause
of a monarch's supremacy over law, yet even the
wiser of them may regard it as a kind of Balaklava
charge- It may be easy to dismiss the present
Diet, easy to charge M. DEAK'S guns and silence
the gunners in that particular spot, but the Ans.
trian Government has yet to make good its retreat.
and that after having lost everything worth a
Government's possessing in Hungary, unless indeed
occupation by a hundred thousand foreign soldiers
be any honour to the Vienna Government.
How the Diet received the rescript is briefly told
us in the telegram. Indeed there could be little
doubt that it would be so. They did not feel them-
selves vanquished, but honoured. They were quite
prepared for a dissolution ; they had countee,
on it. They had fulfilled their mission they
had placed on record incontrovertible proof
both that they understood their country's rights,
and that nothing should deter them from their
assertion. 'hey had unanimously voted their last
solemn appeal to every Hungarian and to every
free= n throughout Europe ; they had shown to all
the Nrorld that they were ready to obey law on
their part, in return for obedience to the law on the
1/4t their KING ; and nothing remained but to
shoe that physical force might dissolve their meet-
ing,ba t could not make traitors of them. This they
did.
only the Lower Hous?, but the Upper
one pa a
uresolution by acclamation, declaring
energ6 f'le%liy that the dissolution of the Diet was
illegal, and do
rymneing also other illegal and
w;olent nets committed by
the Government ?
So :,uocv the Seumtrtu
NOS and RECHBERGS
have again fall Pia...
They may do what
they can, and they cart do
They garians
can harrass and vex a good deal.
oaths in violence,
who re fus3 illegal taxes, by quartte".
rlng soldiers on
ri the six ea
them; they can spend
they can cause indefinite
amount and indefinite
eajollerY
amount ; of annoyance, suffering, and
When, however, they have done all this, what will
they 'r ;aye gained ? Will they have advanced
one
tep towards the amalgamation of Hungary under