The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1860-01-19
AFFAIRS IN HUNGARY.

will not be long before very great organic
changes will take place in its political system
The most significant item in the news brought
by the last mail is the announcement that the
fifth corps of the Austrian army, now in Italy,
has been ordered to Hungary. We are not in
formed of the immediate occasion of this order,
but it is not difficult to surmise the true one.
The movement of the Hungarians for the res
toration OF their ancient constitution has as
sumed proportions which have struck terror to
the soul OF the Emperor of Austria. The revi-
val of the national costume, and the patriotic
addresses of the leading mobiles and statesmen
of Hungary, have had proportionate effect in
rousing the ardor of the masses of the people,
and it would seem that there is now far more
unanimity on the subject among the various
| nationalities which make up the population of
the country, than there was during the struggle
for independence in l849. We find the Saxons
of Pennsylvania asking pardon of the Magyar
leaders for their lukewarmness and hostility at
the former epoch and promising to stand firm
| ly by them in their present movement. The
same feeling pervades all parts of Hungary,
and the sentiment is universal that the time
has come for extorting from Francis Joseph
| those concessions which he was at one time
| glad enough to promise, but never meant to
grant. His recent " Imperial Patent" for Sc
which we gave an analysis little time back, J
has failed to conciliate any party. On the con-
trary, it seems to have exasperated all, even in
a religious point of view, while it did not pre-
tend to deal with the real points at issue. Its
tendency was to centralize everything at Wen
ma, in the hands of the Government, the very
| thing which the Magyar chiefs are endeavoring
to prevent.
Their demands have been set forth by four
of-their magnates, Counts Mailaith, Dessewffy,
and Szechen, and Baron Iosika who have
taken the lead in this most important move
ment, and of whom we shall probably hear
more; for upon them will the imperial ven
geance fall, if it fall upon any one. These de-
mands are in substance as follows:
l. The restoration of the ancient Hunga-
rian Kingdom.
2. The organization of a Hungarian chan
Gerry, the chancellor to have seat and voice
in the Imperial Cabinet.
3. The appointment of royal Stakeholder,
who, with the Chancery and the Ban of Croa-
tia, shall organize one Hungarian Stakeholder
ate instead of the now existing Banat and the
Croatian Stadtholderate.
4. The appointment of administrators for the
different counties, and Of royal commissaries
for the free cities.
5. The restoration of the Supreme Court of
ton of the Court of Exchequer.
| 6. The replacement of the religious, academ-
zeal, and University funds, under the superin-
| tendence of the Stadtholderate and Ecclesas.
teal Commission, and the restoration of the
Theresian privileges for the Pesth University.
Z. The hungarian language to be used in
the courts of law and in all the schools; and,
s. The restoration of the royal body guard.
Such are the demands embodied in the me-
moral presented by the magnates to the EN-
peror. Some of them are of no immediate mo-
ment, chiefly because, if the first be accorded,
/ the others will readily follow. But the mag.
mates. have proposed to the nation that a pro-
vincial commission shall meet at Buda, to dis
cuss the following matters:
/. The means to be taken for preventing
| any future conflict between the nation and the
King. The reader will bear in MUD that the
Emperor of Austria is King of Hungary, and
is never styled otherwise by the Hungarians
also, that with them the term King" applies
to the Office as well as the person, and is there
fore not varied when a female sits on the
throne. Maria Theresa was King of Hungary,
and was hailed as such by the mobiles in their
famous exclamation" Moridmur pro rege nos
hO, Maria"
2. The coordination of the upper and lower
houses of the Hungarian Diet on the basis of
the social and political changes which were
made by the laws passed in March, l848.
3. The reorganization of the municipal ad-
ministraton.
4. The plan for Mortgage Bank" an
other name for national loan associatien.)
5. The sum which Hungary shall pay to-
wards the now existing national debt.
6. The assimilation of Hungarian and Aus
trian laws.
The reader will perceive that the points pro-
posed for discussion are such as could only be
started by nation already independent. By
this suggestion of the magnates, they beg the
question of the restoration of their ancient
kingdom they in fact take it for granted, but
they have consideration enough for Francis
Joseph to tell him that they do not wish to
sever themselves from the empire. If he is
content with being nothing more than con
stitational King in Hungary, that country will
not refuse to continue a member Ofthe Austrian
Confederation. Having settled these points to
their satisfaction, the magnates propose that a
Diet should be eonvoked, the Emperor crown
ed King, and a Palatine elected to admins
ter the Government for him. They conclude
their memorial thus ain the sequel it will
be seen that constitutional and federative tie
between Hungary and Austria, as is prescribed
by the Pragmatic sanction, will make the en-
pre- stronger abroad and more prosperous at
home than the system of Capitalization, that
inrcrtion ofthe French Jacobins, s0hich aceighs
like q curse on the descendants Of the Tegi-
cides."-P Philadelphia american.
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