The Sun. — 1861-02-06 (London, England)

ARTHUR HELPS.  ATTEMPTED ►SUICIDE DURING THE ROYAL PROCBSSION.—As her Majesty the Queen was yesterday proceeding to open Parliament, and just as the Royal cortege reached Derby-street, a small street leading from Parliament-street into Cannon-row, a person, in Asiatic costume, was seen to break through the crowd and attempt to thrust a paper into the carriage in which her Majesty was seated. He was, however, immediately prevented. Indeed, the Prince Consort himself, apprehensive of some maniac violence, pushed back the hand of the intruder. The man, baffled in his effort to force himself upon Royalty, immediately pulled out a claspknife and drew it three times across his throat. • Arrested by the police, he was at once conveyed to King-street police station, where he promptly received the necessary surgical attention. The man's name is Mahomet Ali Khan. He is about 40 years of age, and is a native of Calcutta. He is under the impression that he has suffered some wrongs from the hands of Government, and states that it was his intention to place a petition in reference to his case before the Queen. He is evidently a lunatics  The following is the letter of the Prince Primate of Hungary to the Comitats : Honourable Comitats I Estimable patriots I To contribute to the happiness of our dear country, to secure its prosperity, such has ever been the chief aim of my life. Therefore I desire nothing more strongly than to see reestablished the advantages of the constitutional existence enjoyed by us and our fathers during a series of years under crowned princes. The Almighty, who rules times and epochs, who destroys empires and founds them anew, has blessed my efforts, and thus it "happens that his Majesty, following his former inclinations, accedes to the deOres of the nation, and has restored to the country its constitutional existence. In virtue of the supreme resolution, the comitats were organised ; provinces violently, separated from the territory of the country have been restored to it ; the language of the public decrees and of education is the Hungarian language ; and with satisfaction we learn that the Diet and the Government of our august Sovereign .are to be expected as indubitable facts. We now possess the germ of the constitutional life; the good intentions and the promia3 of our lord and sovereign are the guarantee that we shall also witness the fructification of the germ..  I bless the Almighty, who has permitted me to see the morning of the day of the resurrection of my country, and has enabled me to exclaim with the nation, " The country hes risen from the dead I let as return thanks to the Almighty." But I experience very grave anxiety in learning that the construction of the new edifice is not in some points conducted with that prikenee, that patience, which the importance alld difficulty inherent to the matter require, and.which are the necessary conditions 'of a happy solution. Dear patriots I—Your ardent love for the safety of the country tranquillises me, and makes me hope that you will not badly construe it if one of your brothers who has reached the evening of life, and, anxious on the subject of his country's prosperity, addresses to you some words of counsel.  For so great a work as the regulation of our country's affairs, great preparations are necessary, in order that all may be executed with fitting circumspection, and that the edifice which we desire to see arise, magnificent and impregnable, may be placed upon a sure and solid basis. It is especially in the execution of a work of such grandeur and of such extensive bearings, that precipitation ought to be avoided. We should shun all premature steps—acts contrary to the written decree—steps which, besides being an obstacle to the development of affairs, produce, instead of order, the anarchy which God wishes to spare the coua'try so often tried, and provoke measures of order on the part of the authorities. If, with amanly perseverance, we have suffered, our eyes turned the Most High, only nourishing in our hearts a wish to see the Sovereign tender us his hand in sign of reconciliation as he has now tendered it, let us at least have some months of patience until our affairs receive from the Diet a solution in a permanent form, with the co• operation of all, and so not alienate, a Sovereign animated by the purest s3ntiments, and who approaches us with the olive branch in his hand. The country finds itself now, as it has done at many other periods, in a situation of difficulty. Dear friends of the country, permit me in my sincerity to tell you that your patriotism will be of very slight value, if just at this moment you withdraw the aid material to the Prince and the country ; if just at this moment you refuse the payment of taxes, the necessity for which, moreover, is so pressing in our own interest. I hope you will understand me if, in virtue of my position in the country, and following the example of my ancestors, I now intercede between the Sovereign and the nation. May these words full of tonfidence, testify my high esteem for you, my fraternal love, and the hopes which I entertain of your patriotism. May the blessing of God descend upon the Prince and upon the country. JEAN SEITO/MSKY, Cardinal and Prince Primate of Hungary.  Gran, Jan. 16, 1861.  MR.