7 SEPTEMBER 1861, Page 1

• The debates in the Austrian Parliament on the dissolution

of the Hungarian Diet have not been nominal. In the Lower House, es- pecially, the Poles and Czechs haveinade a fair fight for the absent 'Hungarians, M. von Schmerling, however, regained in full the con- fidence of the German section of the House by his hearty adhesion to the principle of constitutional right for the future for Austria, and his still heartier repudiation of the constitutional rights of the past for Hungary.