The Sun. — 1860-04-26 (London, England)

THE IMPERIAL LETTERS PATENT.  A letter from Pesth, dated April2o, says :—The telegraph will of course have informed you long before this that the official journal of Vienna has published Letters Patent of the Emperor Francis Joseph on the subject of Hungary. These Letters Patent were announced to us by telegraph as containing very extensive concessions indeed; and no doubt, seeing that the Viennese Government is very anxious to . deceive Western Europe as to the state of this country, they have been presented in the same light to you. But thus far they are regarded by all the Hungarian politicians whom I have had the opportunity of consulting, as nothing better than " a delusion and a snare' —a delusion because they contain no real concessions; snare, because they are made the pretext of exciting divisions in the patriotic party. So little is thought of them that the two Hungarian newspapers, the Pesti Naplo (Pesth Journal), and the Magyar Sajto (Magyar Press), actually reproduce them this morning without a single word of comment. The Letters Patent intimate that the five great divisions into which Hungary has been parcelled out since 1849 are to be set aside ; but they do not say that the provinces which in that year were wrested from Hungary are to be restored to her, and consequently the letters fail to do what the Hungarians have greatly at heart. The letter's promise, at some future day not specified, the reestablishment of the Assemblies of the Comitats ; but Heaven knows when this promise will be rev lased—according to all Austrian practice, never. Even if the Comitat system should be re-established, it would be so organised as to be more Austrian than Magyar, and would consequently give offence to the people. The Letters Patent, moreover, say' that when the organisation of Consitats shall be completed, measures relative to the enacting of a Diet shall be prepared; but what is the practical value of such a promise as this ? Evidently none. What, indeed, is an undertaking to " prepare meet sures relative to the meeting of a Diet ?" Who can tell how many years the preparation will last What assurance is there that measures will be acted on when the preparation is completed ? Besides this, is it not notorious that during the last years the Viennese Government has made dozens of promises to Hungary, and has not kept one ? This is the view taken of the Letters Patent in this city, and I doubt not that it will be the same throughout the country. If the Austrian. Government be really sincere in its desire to pall this perturbed nation, it must not make sue° trumpery promises as these, but must at 011,,c0 revive the ancient Constitution and give back, Hungary her ancient landmarks. Nothing .I_,e0t 4 , will suffice ; and if it be withheld long the gull garians will become so exasperated that they voa not be satisfied even with that, but will deree:ll4 with a voice of thunder a rupture of the ties will' bind them to the empire of the Hapsburgs. The Viennese Government has frequently' re d, its newspaper organs, both at home and aloes. • deny that it has confiscated the estates Of t_i!, martyrs of 1849. But the falsity of this denial of:r, demonstrated a few weeks since by the official u, vertisement that the estates of the murgered CnLi Poi Louis Batthyany had passed into the hand tie Count Zichy, on the payment of a large sum by ent latter. A new proof of the falsity is at this more before me in the shape of a judgment of the. Supirtr. Court of Pesth, authorising, by order of the nese Government, the sale of the estates of lvflio signor Horvath, Catholic Bishop of Csana4, i;ter was condemned to death for having acted as 31111,5h0, of Worship in the Government of 1848-9, but W more fortunate than his friend and colleague, U.rof Louis Batthy any, managed to escape the sangeviu,..ea clutches of the Austrians. This venerable and ren7 prelate is now living, I believe, at Brussels, a _u,3t, lam sure, poor ; and yet the Austrian Governwit_V:vg after the lapse of twelve years, and after ha ter, had the barbarity, in spite of his sacred chars' now put up t„°_,,d....tt tion nhave e himlettdl.eharneagleaproilPeretffiyg—yit was little luau. late he possessed. e wtheaerisntgeammoerusrnoinng tfhoer tee! which he organised are carrying their f10.g5,.°50. mast high ; and the lions on the magnificenilo be CoAunlit thsezeneahteinony pension-bridge at Pesth, which he caused b Gove constructed, are decked with crape. The ,tigs' anent has at last authorized a searching inceod tion to be made into the mysterious circunns Sell of of his death. As this death followed very evaroti ou that of another esteemed patriot, Josika, the extraordinary belief has g'have ground among the common people that they /t 10 both fallen victims to Austrian vengeance.. J:..t alleged, indeed, that they were both poisoned t 5 dinner at Vienna, and that Josika died a_larll_,.,%. re: mediately after ; but that Szechenyi vf :115, it covered, was shot in such a way as tc.rusio sot, appear that he had committed suicide !.el. ,", is . of course, credit for one moment this tale 2 el,L_ss, t absurd as it is monstrous. But, has created such prejudice against the 1314°1 toth Government that the latter has been 0 *al orgal"thst proclaim its falsity in its semi-offici t n°' Augsburg Gazette. By the way, mus,_., jade Government feel that it has fallen very has to cell in the estimation of its subjects, when 4:„0 descend to answer such an odious aocust"'" nev_erthAtilestria •  ,1,.. ~ . , •' - . , . • TITE SUN, tONDOI . , ....._ .............,..1,,..4.....1101.,,, • .. - • ••. . . • . ....