The sensational statements circhlateci by the pro-Magyar Press in Vienna
with regard to the attitude of King Edward towards Hungary have, it is to be hoped, been finally disposed of by the letter which appears in the Neues Wiener Tagbiatt of Wednesday. Lord Knollys has now authorised the paper in question to declare there is not the slightest foundation in fact for the accounts which have been given of Count Apponyi's audience of the King last summer,—viz., that King Edward had received from his visitor a long explanation of Hungarian aspirations, and had ever since spoken with warm approval of Hungarian ambitions. We may add that cordial personal relations between the King and the leading Hungarian nobles have existed for many years, but to repre- sent them as taking the form of pronounced political partisanship at the present juncture was a wholly un- justifiable perversion of the facts of the case.
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