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The local diet, of which the archbishop of G�rz is a member ex-officio, is composed of 22 members, and the crownland sends 5 deputies to the Reichsrat at Vienna.

Austria, meanwhile, had been making the first tentative essays in constitutional concession, which culminated, in May 1861, in the establishment at Vienna of a Reichsrat for the whole empire, including Hungary.

The local Diet is composed of 151 members, including the 3 archbishops, the 5 bishops, and the 2 rectors of the universities, and Galicia sends 78 deputies to the Reichsrat at Vienna.

Appearing before the Reichsrat or Council of States, reactionary Minister of Interior Baron von Gayl made a bid for confidence by admitting, "I am a monarchist by tradition and conviction."

When the Reichsrat* endorsed the treaties, last week, by a vote of 34 to 4, the prophecy was considered to have become a certainty.