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London, England, 1861-02-09 00:00:00

were driven by sentences passed in an unconstitu-
tional way by foreign judges, who used foreign
laws.' In respect to the taxes we must declare
that none can be imposed in a constitutional coun-
try without the consent of the nation. We can,
therefore, only consider those taxes lawful which
have been approved by the Diet. The weapons
which we shall oppose to force and violence
are truth and law. The latter may be violated
and set aside, but they cannot with justice be anni-
hilated. In regard to the administration of justice,
we are of opinion that any provisional arrangements
which may be made by the .Tudex Curley and the
Septemviral Tafel (Supreme Court of Justice)
should be accepted by the nation, but we hope and
expect that justice will soon be administered in a
way which shall be in accordance with our consti-
tutional rights, ' and with the private rights ac-
quired by others.'
" We are of opinion that the laws of 1848 can
only be revised or altered by the Diet. It is not
absolutely necessary to submit them to the Diet,
but it may be well to subject them to a revision, as
some of them are less precise than could be wished,
and others are provisional in their character. Until
the laws of 1848 have been altered by the Diet, we
are bound in duty to uphold and obey them.
" Given by the General Assembly held at Pesth
on the Ist of-February."
The foregoing address has produced an exceed-
ingly disagreeable impression, as it clearly proves
that the Hungarians do not intend to relinquish
any of their rights. When first the diploma was
published it was here believed that the Hungarians
would not insist on having independent and re-
sponsible Ministers of War and Finance, but during
the last six or eight weeks it has become obvious that
Hungary is not inclined to entrust the management
of her military and financial affairs to Imperial
functionaries. "We are willing," say the Hunga-
rians, " annually to grant any reasonable number
of recruits and any reasonable sum of money, but
we will never voluntarily permit the Austrian Go-
vernment to raise soldiers and impose taxes without
our concurrence." Baron Yay and Count Szechen
will leave for Pesth this evening, but there is no
good reason for believing that anything of impor-
tance is about to occur in that city; It is thought
probable that the two Hungarian Ministers go to
Hungry in order to make preparations for the meet-
ing of the Diet, and to persuade Count Apponyi to
remain at his post, which he is much inclined to
quit. It is here said that the rescript of the 16th
January was issued by the Emperor at the instiga-
tion of the Minister of State, and contrary to the
advice of Count Rechberg, Count Szechen, and
Baron Vay, and it is not unlikely that the report
is well founded, as M. Von Schmerling is not
favourable to the claim made by the Hungarians to
an exceptional position in the empire. By means
of placards the Government has made known to the
Hungarian soldiers on furlough and to the so-called
"reserves" that they will be considered deserters,
and treated as such, if they do not present them-.
selves to the military authorities by the 10th of this
month. The Protestant community at Verocri
(Verovitz), in the Slavonian County of the same
name, has made the " weli-deserving Louis Kos-
suth " honorary curator of the parish. This
demonstration against the Austrian Government
is the more worthy of notice, as it tends to confirm
the current report that the Croats and Slavonians
intend to make common cause with Hungarians:
On Jan. 28 the county of Warasdin, in Croatia,
humbly petitioned the Emperor to convoke the
Provincial Diet without delay, in order that it
might pronounce in favour of a union with Hun-
gary. On the following day the General Congre-
gation of Warasdin protested against the " instruc-
tions"which had been received from Vienna, and re-
solved to form a Croatian " Sedria" instead of the
Imperial Royal Court of Justice. The inhabitants of
the kingdom of Croatia have expressed a wish that
their brethren on the military frontier may be
allowed to send delegates to the Diet, but the Go-
vernment has declared that the borderers, being
'soldiers, cannot elect representatives. M. Bartho-
lomew Szemere, who was Minister of the Interior
in Hungary in 1848, has addressed a third letter to
his fellow-countrymen ; but he gives himself un-
necessary trouble, for no one reads his lueubrations.
In fact, the Pesth papers tell the public that the
ex-Minister is ignorant of the actual state of affairs
in his native country.
The law for the regulation of the affairs of the
Protestants has long been drawn up, but it is
still in the Cabinet of the Emperor, and there
it is likely to remain for some time to come,
as the Ultramontane party at Court is strongly
opposed to its publication. Much is said
here of the " liberal principles and intentions" of
the Emperor, but I shall have no faith in his con-
version to constitutionalism until it has been an-
nounced in the Wiener Zeitung that the Concordat
is to undergo a revision. Feldzeugmeister Count
Coronini, an Ultramontanist of the deepest dye,
who was formerly one of the tutors of the Emperor
and his brothers, now has the command of the first
army (its head quarters are in this city), and he
will not fail to have recourse to very violent mea-
sures should any attempt be made to disturb the
public peace. When he commanded the Aus-
trian corps of occupation in the Danubian Princi-
palities he ruled the unfortunate Roumans with a
rod of iron, and when Governor in the Banat and
Voivodina he ruled with the stick. He was re-
called from Croatia and Slavonia, where he was
sent after his return from the Banat, because he
was so exceedingly unpopular, and now that
Austria is to be governed constitutionally he has
been summoned to the metropolis.

* The meaning of this passage is, that all the contracts
entered into during the last ten or eleven years shall be
binding. A great deal of real property has changed hands
since the revolution, and some of the largest estates in the
kingdom have been mortgaged.

THE MEDITERRANEAN AND BOMBAY

111AI_LS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 3.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamer Ellora, Capt. Joy, with the heavy portion
of the above mails, has arrived.

She brings 38 passengers, pearls (value 40,500
rupees), diamonds (8,500 rupees), precious stones
(3,400 rupees), and jewellery (2,700 rupees); also
37 cases silk, 303 packages sundries, and 1,363
bales raw silk, value £130,000 sterling.
The Ellora experienced on the 24th and 25th of
January a strong N.E. gale, and on the 29th and
30th, between Alexandria and Malta, encountered a
gale, with heavy sea; hove to -under close reefed
main trysails. The strength of the gale continued
for 12 hours, during whicirthe port lifeboats were
carried away. -

The Ellora sailed from Gibraltar on the 4th; on
the sth exchanged signals with the British barque
Borelia, running S.W., and with the Norwegiag
brig Mogador.

The Himalaya left Gibraltar for England on
the 4th.

Her 1\ lajesty's ship Orion arrived at Gibraltar
on the 2d from the lonian Islands.
Exchanges at Gibraltar were quoted on London,
90 days' date, 501; Paris, 5f 33c ; Marseilles,
5f 34c ; Genoa, 5f 30c ; Madrid, eight days'
sight; par; Cadiz, par ; Malaga, eight days' sight,
dis ; Seville, 1 dis ; Valencia, par ; Barcelona, il-
preen ; Spanish pillared dollars, Ferdinand, 3 per
cent premium, no demand ; Spanish pillared dollars,
Carolus, 22 per cent. premium, in demand. Freights
un altered.

ABRIyAL OF THE _HIMALAYA.

PORTSMOUTH; SATURDAY MORNING.

Her Majesty's steamer Himalaya has arrived at
Spithead, from the Mediterranean, with invalids
and passengers, and the steam transport Impera-
triz, from China, with invalids, to land here, and
valuable cargo of tea and silk for London.

The Marquis of Huntly will in all probability
succeed to the Lord-Lieutenancy of Aberdeenshire, vacant
by the death of the Earl of Aberdeen.

THE CUARTERIIUUSE SCHOOLS.—The new wing
in connection with these schools, in. the Elizabethan style
of architecture, has just been completed, and will be opened
next week. The additional structure has been built by Mr.
liesheth, architect, and will accommodate 200 children.