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HUNGARY. 



Hungarians have made great efforts to obtain 

 at least a part of it. According to recent re- 

 searches by Ernst Simonyi, there were in the 

 libraries of London, Paris, Brussels, Wolfen- 

 buttel, Florence, Venice, Rome, and Besancon, 

 48 Corvina manuscripts. Besides these there 

 were 363 others, which may be regarded as 

 genuine. The present of the Sultan to the Hun- 

 garians comprised 35 well-preserved works. 

 The Chamber of Deputies therefore passed a 

 unanimous resolution to present to the Sultan 

 the thanks of the nation. 



THE THEINI 



3HE, PRAGUE, BOHEMIA. 



On May 2d, three interpellations on the East- 

 ern question were made in the Hungarian Diet, 

 and a fourth one was announced. The answer 

 given by Tisza, on May 4th, was similar to that 

 made by the Austrian Government to the Reichs- 

 rath on the same day. Its substance was that 

 the best policy would be not to waste the 

 strength of the nation prematurely ; freedom 

 of action was of the greatest consequence; co- 

 operation with Russia was impossible, and no 

 secret convention with that Power existed. 

 On the 9th Tisza added, in answer to a ques- 

 tion on the navigation of the Danube, that a 

 demand had been sent by the common ministry 

 to St. Petersburg and Constantinople, for the 

 removal of all obstructions to the free naviga- 

 tion of the river. From this time on interpel- 

 lations on the Eastern question were of com- 



mon occurrence, and were promptly answered 

 by Tisza. An additional source of trouble was 

 a Slavic demonstration in Agrain, the capital 

 of Croatia, on the occasion of the visit of the 

 Archduke Albrecht. During the torchlight pro- 

 cession the crowd cheered Russia, while a band 

 played the Russian national anthem. The arch- 

 duke received a delegation of Russian refugees, 

 and promised them his intercession with the 

 Emperor, to procure for them further assist- 

 ance, but refused to receive a Panslavistic ad- 

 dress of the students. 



During the remainder of the ses- 

 sion of the Diet, interpellations con- 

 tinued to be made almost uninter- 

 ruptedly, and the minister in all 

 cases gave answers similar to those 

 made by Prince Auersperg in the 

 Austrian Reichsrath. (See ArsTRo- 



HUNGAKIAX MONABCHT.) The RuS- 



sian successes continued to inflame 

 the Hungarians, and in September an 

 attempt was made by Szeklers, the 

 Hungarians living in Transylvania, to 

 enter Roumania from that province. 

 The conspiracy, however, was discov- 

 ered, and arms and ammunition were 

 seized in boxes which were repre- 

 sented to contain machinery. Meet- 

 ings were held in a large number of 

 towns to protest against the annex- 

 ation or occupation of Bosnia, and 

 to demand " the maintenance, in its 

 integrity, of the Ottoman Empire." 

 A meeting of Slavic sympathizers, 

 held in Agram on August 5th, no 

 the other hand, adopted a resolution 

 expressing the conviction of those 

 present, that the barbarous and cruel 

 oppression of the Christian peoples 

 in the East would continue so long 

 as Turkey existed, and that the Turk- 

 ish Empire in Europe must therefore 

 fall, if an existence, compatible with 

 the dignity of mankind, was to be 

 secured to those Christians. 



The Diet reassembled on Septem- 

 ber 15th. Five interpellations were 

 immediately made. The first was whether 

 the Government had any settled policy, and 

 what that policy was. The second referred 

 to Servia, and asked whether it was true 

 that the Government had hindered the Turks 

 from taking such precautions as might pre- 

 vent that Power from again going to war ; 

 and whether the Government was prepared 

 to bring pressure to bear upon Servia, by 

 all the means in its power, in order that she 

 should not enter once more into the arena. 

 Then from two sides of the House a ques- 

 tion was asked about the Triple Imperial Al- 

 liance whether it existed, and, if so, what 

 was its nature ; while the last interrogatory 

 referred to the representations made about the 

 violation of the Geneva Convention. In reply 

 to these questions, M. Tisza said that the foreign 



