The Jews of Hungary are, it is said, 600,000 in
number, and they have been called upon to arrange the relation their ecclesias- tical organization is to bear to the State. This is to be done through a Congress, elected like a Diet; and as the .Jews are of two parties, the old believers and the Reformers, the contest is expected to be severe. The different parties carry banners, make speeches, and resort to every device usual in Continental elections ; and in Pesth the Reformers have a large majority, though it will probably be reduced in Congress. Whichever party is successful will draw op rules for the organization of the whole, which, when accepted by the Minister of Religion, will bind all Israelites in Hungary,— a curious expedient, which may, nevertheless, succeed. The Huguenot Church exists in France under much the same circum- stances, and in spite of irreconcilable differences of opinion between different congregations.
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