During the formal sitting of the Hungarian Chamber on Monday,
preliminary to the Dissolution on Tuesday, an extra- ordinary and discreditable incident occurred. According to the Vienna correspondent of the Times, several members of the Independence Party denounced the Dissolution as un- constitutional. When the Premier, Count Khuen Hedervary, attempted to reply, his speech was drowned by the shouts of the Opposition, and he began to dictate what he wished to say to a shorthand writer. This expedient enraged some Deputies, and an angry group rushed towards him. The Minister of Agriculture and others did their best to protect the Premier, but a volume of Standing Orders hit the Minister of Agriculture in the eye, and at the same moment a shower of missiles were directed at the Premier. He fell back
bleeding from two serious wounds on the face inflicted by paper-weights or inkpots. Both he and the Minister of Agriculture had to be attended by doctors before they could leave the Chamber.
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