The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany Volume 50

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1851 Excerpt: ... perable bar to intercourse between them ! Does the Reviewer intend to say that this bar was happily removed by the introduction of the Latin, and that this language has furnished a neutral ground, on which this rude and uneducated people could meet their lords ? The Reviewer then speaks of the attempts made by Joseph the Second to introduce the German as the official language of Hungary, and the successful resistance offered to his encroachments. He then proceeds: --The Magyars had thus vindicated the respect due to their own vernacular tongue, but they were not willing to respect the language and the national feeling of others. By constantly pressing the Austrian government on this point ever since 1800, they had at last succeeded in causing the Latin to be supplanted by the Magyar language in the deliberations of the Diet, and in the acts of the government; this change was not consummated till 1844. The few Sclavonians in the legislature were still allowed, as of necessity, to address the assembly in Latin, and the government officials sometimes spoke German, though they risked their popularity by so doing.--p. 112. This statement that the few Sclavonians in the legislature were still allowed to use the Latin language, Tile diet of Croatia and Slavonia sent three deputies to the Hungarian diet, one of whom sat in the upper, and two in the lower house. The Ban of Croatia and the Bishop of Zagrah (in Croatia) had also seats in the upper house, or Chamber of Magnates. The free district of Turopolya (in Croatia), whose inhabitants were ennobled in 1225, likewise sent a deputy to the Hungarian diet. The number of nobles in Croatia is 32,000. Slavonia had not only a voice in the choice of the deputies elected by the provincial diet, but the thre...