27 APRIL 1861, Page 2

" In accordance with paragraph 3 of the Fundamental Laws

for the repre- sentation of the empire, his Majesty, on the 18th inst., made the dignity of member of the Upper House hereditary in the families of the following persons:

Of the Prins John Liechtenstein, Lobkovitz,Auersperg, Adolphus Schwarzen- berg, Colloreclo-Mannsfeld, Kherenhiiller, Starhemberg, Sam-Reifferscheid,

Schaabarg, Metternich, Windischgratz (des Marshal), Furstenberg, Charles, Lieclehoulem, Lemberg, Kinsky, Clary sad Aldriogert, !Tsar, Sanguszko, Rohan-

Gaimesum (resident in Bohemia), Collette, and Sapieha ; and ot the Counts-- Attar's, Bouquoi, Brandin, Canossa, Cavriani, Calleeui, Czernin, Maurice Diettiehetein, Goes, Goluchowsld, Guidi di Bagno, liarrach, Haugwitz, Herber- stein, lioyos.Sprinzenstein, Kannitz-Knefstein, Lanekoronski, Larisch-MUnnich Lewicki, Meran, Miniscalchi. Nostitz, Antonini, Potocki, Schunborn, Sternberg: Thun-Hohenstein, Venier, Waldstein, Wilczek, and Wratislaw. " The persons who, in accordance with paragraph 5 of the Fundamental Laws for the representation of the empire, have been made members of the Upper House for life, are : Count Anthony Auersperg, Prince Vincent Auersperg, Baron Baumgartner (formerly Minister of Finances and Commerce), Count Bembo (the Podesti of Venice), General von Benedek, Count Clam-Gallas, Count Degenfeld, the Minister of War, M. Grillparzer (poet and dramatic author), M. Haase (Protestant Superintendent), General Count Haller, Count Hartig (formerly Minister of State), Baron Hess (the Marshal), Prince Jablo- nowski, Count Khevenhtiller, the Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John in Bohemia, Baron Philip Krauss (formerly Minister of Finance), Baron Charles Krauss (formerly Minister of Justice), Baron Lichtenfels, the President of the Council of State, Lieutenant-General Prince Francis Liechtenstein, Baron Mitnch- Bellinghausen (poet and dramatis author), Count Munch-Bellinghausen (at the outbreak of the revolution of 18,18 President of the German Confederation), Marshal Count Nugent (an Irishman), Dr. Polacky (the renowned Bohemian historian), the Chevalier von Pipits (the Governor of the Bank), Baron Pro- kesch (Austrian Internuncio at the Porte), Count Reehherg, M. Resti-Ferrari, Baron Beyer (a highly-respected Trieste banker), Baron Rosnaszkan, Baron Anselm Rothschild, Count Sairn-Reifferscheid, Count Schaffgotscbe, Baron Sehindelheim, Count Starzenski, Count Leo Tliun (the ex-Minister for Ecclesi- astical Affairs), Prince Hugh of Thurn and Taxis, General Count Thurn, Count Trauttmannsdotf, Baron Wassilko, and Count Leopold Wolkenstein."

There is no improvement in the position in Hungary, and a Pesth journal states openly that the kingdom will not be satisfied without the restoration of the integrity of the country, and the constitution of 1848, that it will send no delegates to Parliament, and that the only concessions it will make are to discuss the future form of its govern- ment diplomatically, and to accept its share of the Imperial debt. The last seems to have been extorted by the irritation the first hint of a refusal to bear any portion of the debt produced among the non- Hungarian nationalities. The House of Representatives was consti- tuted on 20th April, but no business of importance was transacted. The Austrian Commissioners have withdrawn from Berlin, and the efforts to reorganize the army of the Confederation on the basis of a divided command may be considered at an end. Prussia, more- over, it is said, intends to send only her contingent into Hol- stein, instead of a great army, leaving the rest of the force to be supplied by the Diet. The object of the change is to allay the suspicion of interested designs. It is said that the Chamber of Re- presentatives intend to curtail the military budget, while the German National Association is opening its deliberations in some of the larger towns of North Germany. The object of this association is to make Prussia supreme in the Federation, an object not very con- sistent with diminished armies.

The railway from Berlin to St. Petersburg will, it is said, be com- pleted in another year. It is already so far advanced that the journey is now effected in three days.