The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-30 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND ROML

VIENNA, Sam 29.
The resignation of Baron Bach, Austrian ambas-
sador at the Papal Court, has been confirmed.
Lila most probable successor among the person-
ages indicated by rumour is Baron Hubner.

PORTUGAL.
BAPTISM OF THE INFANTE.

LISBON, lan. W.

The baptism et the Infante Don ♦tfoae took
place to-day in the chapel of the Ajuda Palace,
without public ceremony.

AUSTRALIA.
(By direct overland telegrapk from Galls.)
MELBOURNE, AUGUST 27.
Shipments of gold since the departure of the hull
mail amount to 107,000 cizs.
The drought continues.

AUSTRIA.

(NOON OUR OWN comizsrommir.)
VIENNA, Sill. 26.
Many people who hear only of the difficulties 01
Austria, of the stagnation of trade and the want of
tneuey, think, I Ears say, that the state of stagna-
tion is general, and extends to other matters besides
commerce and the circulating medium. But it vi
not so : the members el the great body are con-
tinually giving signs of life—are moving, turn-
ing and stretching themselves out in various
directions, just szirplant--;do what you will—turns
towards the sun, and makes its way even through
stone walls to get at the .air and light.
If for a year or
.bwo past the characteristic of
Austrian policy was inactivity=l mean on the part
of the min who ought to have taken the initiative—
this was not at all the case with the industrial and
agricultural clam in the different provinces of the
empire. It is quite htrrprisiug how, under such
adverse circumstances, a little amount of vitality
should have displayed itself. Day after day we
read of agricultural and, industrial exhibitions
taking place : at Salzburg, at Linz, at Zuaim, in
Moravia, at Marburg in Styria, and numerous
other towns whose existence is unknown to English
readers. Here different produce and different sys-
tems Are compared 4,rigrictutural impleweuts and
machinery shown end explained ; while in another
department the vis luindicrafts give specimens
of their &ill. braiffirma ioinatey-ierepre-
seuted. To all these the public throng in crowds,
thus giving evidence of the general interest such
exhibitions excite. Prizes are distributed to the
must deserving, and not small is the emulation
shown by all to obtain distinction. In Gruassu a
new agricultural school is being established, with
fourteen free places for those who are unable to
pay. At Krems, the Archieological Society has
just held its meeting ; and in different parts of the
empire, schools like that at Grossau are also being
established. In Vienna the handicraftsmen have
established schools for the apprentices, to which they
can goon Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings.
Twenty inspectors are appointed from the different
trades, all having agreed to the plan except the
tioman. Why these should hold out lam unable
to say. In Krems a new school-house has been
built, admirably adapted to its purpose. An''
academical gymnasium is at this moment being
erected in Vienna. In Gratz, a plan is being
worked out for carrying on a system of communal
self-government.
Thus you see that stagnation is not the prevailing
state of thiugs in this empire. It is well to know
all this, that false opinions may not prevail.
A circumstance that cannot be without interest
to a corn-importing country is, that the wheat har-
vest iu Galicia has this year been good, and better
than last year. Barley ban not turned out so
favourably ; the crop was only " middling."
The sensation which the appearance of the
Imperial Manifesto has caused throughout the
empire is indescribable.* In the remotest cor-
ners of the realm its effect was more like that
of an electric shock than anything else. Since
its publication the daily papers of Vienna are
full of extracts from the gazettes from all
parts of the monarchy on this all-engrossing
subject. " The King has spoken, and kingly are
his words," says one Hungarian journal ; and con-
tinues thus : " Never yet was an act bailed with
such joy as this imperial proclamation." In the
Naptu Baron Kemeny writes : " The 20th Septem-
ber has saved Hungary from utter ruin." And Baron
Eiitvos in the lietilap, " Never yet have Impe-
rial words produced a like effect in Hungary."
Indeed, the telegraph bra had enough to do to re.
port the enthusiasm which it has caused in the pro-
vieces. On the arrival of the news at Prague a
festal performance was given at the theatre, and
an improvised illumination of the great square
arranged.
After the first ebullition of feeling the public grew
calmer, on seeming to feel the importance of the
question that was soon to be decided. The con-
sciousness grew upon them that the present was but
the beginning of what was to come ; and bow that
might be no one could foretell. The burden of the
resolve on which so much depended seemed to weigh
upon each one. The sudden gladness was checked ;
and a profound seriousness, caused by a conscious-
ness of the uncertainty of what might be impending,
took its place. Here in Vienna there was no re-
joicing. Neither did men complain. But each one
felt that he and his race were DO longer them on
whom, as hitherto, the very foundations of the Em-
pire were supposed to rest. To another eastern
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