The Hungarian Government, with the consent of the Emperor, has
decided not to give up the Civil Marriage Bill. It has the right, it appears, of reintroducing a rejected measure ; this has been done at once, and the Bill will again be sent up to the House of Magnates to meet, it is believed, a rather different reception. The great ecclesiastics in Hungary are immensely wealthy, they are afraid of a movement for disestablishing the Church, and they will, it is imagined, stay away. As they are forty in number, this would of itself suffice to carry the Bill, but all Magnates connected with the Court will also abstain, and probably some others, it being understood that the Emperor, though himself Ultramontane, will create Peers rather than suffer this Ministry to be defeated. The entire country appears to be roused against the Papacy, which is accused of refusing to Hungary conces- sions granted to other countries, in order to punish the King for joining the Triple Alliance. One or two great ecclesiastics have, it is said, hurried to Rome in order to represent to Leo XIII. the serious dangers in which the protraction of the dispute might involve the Hungarian Church.
