The illustrated London news . r them, They con-stitute, if one may so say, the body of Austria, while otherpeoples associated with the empire are but limbs. Indevotion to freedom, and in fitness to use and enjoythey ii. (.hey resemble ;. [,> militaiy ;urinay elaun e-juaiiiy wiiii iheir ;, in Hungary, as elsewhere, faiih, and varyine shades i polities) there, as elsewhere, strongly-marked social grades and con-ditions, the interests of which, although really identical, areoften seemingly conflicting ; hut, stneily ••pe:d;n>e, (heir is ,o
The illustrated London news . r them, They con-stitute, if one may so say, the body of Austria, while otherpeoples associated with the empire are but limbs. Indevotion to freedom, and in fitness to use and enjoythey ii. (.hey resemble ;. [,> militaiy ;urinay elaun e-juaiiiy wiiii iheir ;, in Hungary, as elsewhere, faiih, and varyine shades i polities) there, as elsewhere, strongly-marked social grades and con-ditions, the interests of which, although really identical, areoften seemingly conflicting ; hut, stneily ••pe:d;n>e, (heir is ,one party—namely, the party of Hungary, This is the peoplewith whom Francis Joseph essays to deal, in order that he maybreak them into submission to his will; and the questionbetween them, summed up in few words, is this—whetherthese nine millions of people shall preserve distinct and entiretheir ancient nationality, with aU the proud memories, thepolitical guarantees, the institutions and privileges, which are. 104 THE ILLUSTRATED LOgDOg NEWS [Au theirs 1>J inheritance, or whether they arc to lose their identityand become into an empire fashioned by Germanminds in a German mould. The Hungarian Diet nave unani-mouBly told the Emperor that they will continue to be whatthe treaties, laws, and institutions handed down to them bytheir forefather have made them ; that they will recoSni*e himSB their King, and render him that fealty which all Kiri-jshave received ; but that they will not surrender the individualityof a great and renowned historic nation like Hungary in orderto be fused into that centralised system which, under the ambition of the llapsburg family. The course pursued by the Ei»|«.rnr Francis since theBattle of Solfcrino and the Treaty of Zurich indicated that Insmind bad been chastened by adversity, and led to the expecta-tion that if he did not, as it was thought probable he would not,accept the programme laid down for liim by the
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