Smyrna times., 1860-02-23
MIS- CELLAN NEOUS.
Affairs in Hungary.

The movement in favor of national indepen-
alarming proportions; alarming, we mean, to
the Court of Vienna, where infatualion of the
most ncurable kind appears to reign supreme.
The latest intelligence informs US Of the cita-
ton before the Criminal Court of the chairman
and secretaries of the Cavinist meeting, held
at Pesih, at the beginning of December last,
for the purpose Of protesting against the Impe-
rial Patent of the 1st September, 1910. As
many of our readers may not know or rcmem-
Der what then took place, we will state that the
meeting was a most numerous one, upwards OF
three thousand persons being collected in the
principal Protestant church, and many more
being unable to obtain admission. AS is usual
in Hungary, it had two charmen, a clergyman
and layman, the Rev. Mr.. Foder and Count
G. Raday, and as usual, also, it was opened and
closed with prayer. Several eloquent speeches,
denOuncing the Imperial Patent as wanton
encroachment on the rights and privileges Of
PrOtestants. were delivered and, eventually,
resolutions solemnly protesting against the pa.
neat grievance was the partition of Hungary
into twelve instead of eight Qhe former NUN.
Der of circles, for ecclesiastical we'll as po
litcal purposes, For this alteration the patent
assigns no reason save that of the Imperial will
and is one whicl is productive Of great confu-
sion and inconvenience. They were mistaken,
Of course. The Lutheran protestants, not a
whit behind their Calvinist brethren, held a
meeting at PesIh, at which equally strong reso-
lutions were passed. At Debreczin a still more
imposing demonstration took place. 1t is stated
that nearly forty thousand persons were pre-
sent, and that many conducted themselves in
go turbulent a manner that the authorities
caused them to be arrested on a charge of con-
spirscy TO excite to treason. These persons
will shortly be tried for this offence, and it ap
pears that the gentlemen above mentioned will
also have to make their appearance before the
Criminal Court on a similar charge. What the
AusIrial government expects to gain by these
proceedings it is hard to say. II is but little
more than twelvemonth ago that he offended
all the Protestants in his Empire by obtaining
n Coucordst from the Pope, which conferred
special privileges on him and his Catholic sub
jecis. Il is not six months since he issued th
famous " Imperial Patent which is the imme
diate cause of the existing ferment. By thi
act, which pretended to grant privileges to tn
Protestants, he equally offended them. and tn
Pope, and the Catholic subjects of his Empire
Unfortunately for himself the measure wa
framed without reference to the wishes or fee
ings of the Protestants, and has been the NEAR
of adding fuel to the fire Of their discomfort
still more singular feature in the affair
that the Catholics now strongly sympathi2
with the Protestant. movement. they conside
ing it national one. So that, turn which wa
he will. the Emperor meets with none but en-
mics.
ABy the q Imperial Patent, il is provided th
she Protestant Churches, Lutheran and Calyi
iss, shall be governed by Synods-whch a
10 be elected according to the provisions of Il
Patent Until these synods are elected the
can be no Inauguration of the gogsrnme