The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-27 00:00:00

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LONDON. TUESDAY. MARCH 27.

IT is just six months since the Nmpwor of
AusrarA, acting on the advice of his responsible
Ministers, suspended the working of the parlia-
mentary institutions with which he had endowed
the Empire. The act was subject to various and
conflicting interpretations at the time, some critics
who were not under any special temptation to be
unjust going so far as to declare it to be a coup
d'etat fatal to the public liberties of the monarchy.
Since that time more moderate views have pre-
vailed, and we now believe it is universally con-
ceded that the act had precisely the character
which its authors claimed for it, and that, though
necessarily arbitrary in its form, it had an exten-
sion and not a contraction of the sphere of con-
stitutional government for its motive and
ultimata aim. Nobody now doubts that it wee
designed to facilitate the steps which the Govern-
ment intended to take for bringing Hungary
into the representative system of the Empire.
At Vienna the EMPEROR'S intentions were not for
a moment suspected by his people. Six months,
however, is a long time for a State not embar-
rassed by domestic or foreign war to en-
dure the suspension of constitutional guarantees
for public liberty. And we are not, therefore, sur-
prised to learn that even the most patient subjects;
of his Imperial Mi.raere are getting anxious to
learn when the institutions which they for a time
enjoyed and have learned to appreciate are to be
restored to vigour. They observe that what our
American kinsmen would call the "reconstruction"
of Hungary makes but slow progress, and they
are beginning to ask whether it can really be in-
tended to make the political states of the whole
empire dependent on the resolution or irresolution
of the people of one of its States. Thus stated,
the question assumes a very practical character,
and would seem capable of only one solution. But
if the constitution is not to remain suspended for
an indefinite time, until the settlement of the
oontroversy between the Imperial Government and
Hungary, what reason can there be for prolonging
the present condition of affairs! Hitherto Count
BELCEEDI and his colleagues have enjoyed the
confidence of the public because it was be•
lieved that their aims at all tunes included
a re-invigoration of the public life of the Empire
by calling the nation to participate in the concerns
of the State, and nothing that we are aware of has
hitherto happened to shake the grounds of this
confidence. But it must occur to them, on refleo-
ton, that an undue protraction of the present pro-
visional stale of things, without a definite prospect
of its cessation, must disquiet the public mind, and
make it keenly susceptible of accidental influ-
ences, which are more likely than not to be per-
nicious. By suspending the constitution in Sep-
tember the EMPEROR set aside his own work,
thereby intending to give the people of Hungary
a pledge that nothing should stand in the way of
a free and full consideration of all the points in
dispute between the Crown and that important
kingdom. But if the wisdom of that act is ad-
mitted, it does not follow that the continuance of
the suspension of the constitution is calculated to
strengthen the guarantee which it was the Es-
PEROII.% intention to give to Hungary. It would
rather seem that the Hungarians must have
more reason for confiding in the inten-
tions of the Imperial Government if they saw it
voluntarily restoring liberties which for a great
public purpose it had temporarily suspended, and
calling the people of the Empire once more to take
part in the conduct of its affair". But even if
this were not so, it would be difficult to show why
the patient, faithful, and confiding Germans
should be treated worse than the proud and dis-
trustful Hungarians. The Imperial constitution
was declared to be placed in abeyance only for a
time, while the supposed necessity for the measure
should last ; and it is no more a subject for regret
than for astonishment that those who have once
experienced its advantages should desire to enjoy
them again. From a material point of view it is
apparent that the suspension seta injuriously upon
Austria, as no attentive observer of the affairs of
the empire can have failed to note. While it oen-
tinues, every interest is unsettled : no confidence
is felt in the future, no faith placed in the stability
of undertakings. The people see the Ex-
PXROII loading himself with responsibilities
which there is no need for him to bear,
while the Government accumulates difficulties upon
its shoulders. The finances of the empire suffer
from the despondency that arises from the same
cause, as the usurious terms on which the last loan
was negotiated, the drooping state of the money
market, and the daily quotations of securities,
sufficiently show. It is readily acknowledged that
the Government has not left unimproved the large
liberty of action which it assumed to itself last
September. It has concluded treaties of com-
merce, improved postal communication; and
planned important railway extensions ; but all
these good designs will miscarry in the absence of
that confidence which is diffused when public in-
telligence and public spirit energetically co-operate
with the Government through free institutions—the
best means that have hitherto been discovered for
giving *enrage and confidence to enterprise. Con-
fidence, indeed, is more necessary at the present
time than money ; for the natural remoras of the
Empire are so great that industry and capital would
inevitably proceed to employ themselves profitably
in developing them if the future were bat reason-
ably sainted.