instria.—On the 5th of November the Emperor addressed to the
Chancellor of Hungary, as mentioned last week, a letter suspending the constitution of the kingdom. The precise words of the letter are of considerable importance : "The execution of the extraordinary measures commanded by necessity is not compatible with the actual institution of the Council of the Lieutenancy of Hungary, founded upon the laws of 1723 and of 1790, and while, on the other hand, the hope of being able to convoke shortly the Hnn„warian Diet, with a view to resolve the questions which have remained pending, cannot be realized as long as there is no regular &ministration to render it possible, I think it advisable temporarily to suspend until the re- establishment of public order the action of my Council of Lieute- nancy for Hungary, established in the sense of the above laws by my enactments of the 20th of October, 1860, as also that of the municipalities of the country, and, consequently, to decree the dissolution of all existing commissions of the Comitats of districts and of municipal representations of the royal free cities." Every existing authority, it will be seen, is dissolved, and replaced by military tribunals, which, however, are placed under one novel re- striction, they are not to inflict corporal punishment on any civilians without the consent of legal authorities. Women, therefore, if flogged, must be flogged illegally. All the Hungarian functionaries in -13esth have resigned. General Count Palffy, an Hungarian in the Austrian interest, was on the same day appointed Lieutenant of Hungary, and made, on assuming office, a speech to the members of his council, in which he exhorted them to endeavour "to revive in every class of the population the ancient spirit and the staid cha- racter of which their ancestors had been so justly priind." Count Palffy fought against Hungary in 1848, and is said to be a coarse, arrogant man, invested with despotic authority. Three newspapers have been seized. Following up this policy, the Emperor, on the 13th inst., published a rescript regretting that the Croatian constitution had not been worked so as to admit of the absolute unity of the empire, and announcing that it had accordingly ceased to exist. No details of the precise cause of the last resolve have yet reached England.