The Hungarian crisis shows no symptoms of abatement. On Thursday
the House reassembled, and Count Tisza briefly asked the Opposition whether they were inclined to grant the Government enough Supply to allow the General Election to take place "under normal financial conditions." To this Count Apponyi, the chosen spokesman of the Opposition, returned a peremptory negative. He took the line that the lox Daniel, or "Tisza guillotine," was not adopted by the majority of the House, but was wrongfully declared to have been adopted by the President. That" Presidential pronounce- ment" the Opposition would never recognise, whatever their ' Constitutional standpoint in regard to provisional Supply might have been in other circumstances. In reply, Count Tisza moved that the House should hold its next sitting on January 3rd, which would probably be the last before the Dissolution. He further stated that the Government alone was responsible for the Dissolution of Parliament. Later on be replied with much force to Count Andrassy, the author of an abortive attempt to bring about a mediation between the parties, and demolished his contention that an ex-lex Dissolution was unconstitutional. Outside Parliament the Opposition leaders have been indulging in violent and menacing language at the expense of Count Tisza, but the Hungarian Premier is evidently a man who is not to be daunted by clamour or threats. He has not lost his head, he meets violence with a firm front, and has thoroughly exposed the disingenuousness of the Opposition tactics. These are epigrammatically defined by the Times Vienna correspondent as being "to compass the overthrow of an uncomfortably vigorous Administration by a dangerous attempt to intimidate the Crown."
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