Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . y of the Vi-enna Government. Several methods of repression and evenof persecution are used by the Hungarians in their futile effortsto magyrize their Roumanian fellow-citizens, toward whomthey display on all occasions the most undisguised and insultingcontempt. The Hungarians wish to form a unified kingdomwith a Parliament in the English fashion; and, consequently, 200 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. they endeavor to assimilate and lessen all peculiarities in in-stitutions, langu
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . y of the Vi-enna Government. Several methods of repression and evenof persecution are used by the Hungarians in their futile effortsto magyrize their Roumanian fellow-citizens, toward whomthey display on all occasions the most undisguised and insultingcontempt. The Hungarians wish to form a unified kingdomwith a Parliament in the English fashion; and, consequently, 200 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. they endeavor to assimilate and lessen all peculiarities in in-stitutions, languages, customs, religion, and ideas. With thisobject in view, the Diet at Pesth has suppressed the autonomy of Transyl-vania, whichis almost ex-clusively in-habited byRoumanians,and whichhad its oflori-ous past, verymuch in thesame way asthe EnglishParliamentat the begin-ninor of thepresent cen-t u r y des-troyed theautonomy , indirect contra-diction withthe terms ofthe AustrianImperial lawof 1863 concerning Transylvania, the use of the Roumanianlanguage in the Government documents, law courts, churches. THE CROWN PRINCE OF ROUMANIA. THE ROYAL FAMILY OF ROUMANlA. SO 1 and schools, has been prohibited, and the autonomy of thechurches and schools have been abolished. The Roumaniansare a very impulsive and hot-headed people, and bitterly resentthe above instances of Austrian tyranny, as they term it, andyearn for deliverance from the heavy Austrian oppression. The position of their compatriots on the other side of thewestern frontier excites the most intense interest, sympathy,and compassion on the part of the Roumanians under KingCharless rule, who see in Transylvania a genuine case of Roumania Irredenta. The feeling throughout the littleDanubian Kingdom is most distinctly hostile to Austria andfavorable to Russia, and since Roumanias neutrality in thecase of an Austro-Russian war would be but a polite fiction,and she is under the disagreeable necessity of saving
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