bers, to sit at Frankfort. The other
governments can be represented by plenipotentiaries accredited to the
said committee, either by each individual state or by several states
conjointly.

"6. The committee of the confederation carries on affairs in an
independent manner, but are responsible to the powers that respectively
nominate them. It forms its resolutions after deliberation in common. If
the members cannot agree, the decision takes place by means of negotiation
between the governments of Prussia and Austria, and which latter, in
case of need, will refer to a judgment of arbitration. This judgment
is pronounced by three governments of the confederation. In such case,
Austria will nominate each time one of the arbiters, and Prussia the
other. The two governments thus designed have to decide upon a third
arbiter for completing the tribunal of arbitration. The members of the
committee of the confederation divide the affairs assigned to them
in this mode, that according to the legislation of the existing
confederation, and especially according to the military constitution of
the confederation, they either personally carry them on, or else direct
and superintend the carrying of them on.

"7. As soon as the ratification by the governments aforesaid of the
great proposition shall have taken place, the archduke vicar
will renounce his dignity and depose the rights and duties of the
confederation that have been confided to him into the hands of the
Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia."

DEMANDS OF THE RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN EMPERORS UPON THE SULTAN OF TURKEY.
--INTERPOSITION OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

Varied and important as the changes and conflicts were in Western
and Central Europe during this year, none of these events menaced the
general peace of Europe so much as a demand made by the czar and the
kasir upon the sultan for the extradition of certain Hungarian refugees.

During the general convulsion of Europe, Hungary flew to arms, and the
Austrian empire was in danger of dismemberment from the success of the
Hungarian revolt. Russia, however, joined her armies to those of the
great German power, and the result was the suppression of the Hungarian
revolution. The chiefs of that movement took refuge within the Turkish
territory. This circumstance led to a demand by the ambassadors of
Russia and Austria at the Porte, for the surrender of all Polish and
Hungarian refugees into the hands of the governments to