The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-04 00:00:00

The German Policy of Austria.

VIENNA, MARCH 30.
At to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the
Reichsrath, Count Mensdorff-Pouilly, Minister for
Foreign Affairs, spoke upon Austria's position with
regard to Prussia, and in especial on the Schleswig-
Holstein question. He said :

Far removed from thinking diplomacy an exclu-
sive secret, only accessible to a privileged few, I en-
tirely share the view that has been expressed, that it
is possible for every educated man, even of only
moderate endowments, to form a correct opinion in
matters of foreign policy without having passed
through any diplomatic school. But I also claim.the
liberty to retain my humble opinion that the treat-
ment of these foreign questions requires the utmost
discretion, if we are not prepared to abandon the
diplomatic field and enter upon that of acts. The
words which publicly pass the lips of the Foreign
Minister of a great Power must be well and care-
fully weighed, because they impose upon the State
the obligation of supporting them with its entire
strength, if requisite. (Cheers.) This may perhaps
be the reason that in all times and at all places the
maintenance of reserve has formed and still forms
one of the first rules of diplomacy.
" After the picture of our home affairs presented
to this house in sufficiently gloomy colours, it be-
comes a doubly solemn duty for him who has the
honour to be entrusted with the guidance of foreign
affairs to apply his whole strength to the mainten-
ance of that peace which the Empire seems in every
respect so urgently to require. It is our belief that
we have never lost sight of this end, and that, indeed,
it has been so far gained by the course taken by the
Emperor's Government that at the present moment
no serious danger of war threatens from any quarter.
No one can really have believed in the rapid solu-
tion of so involved a subject as the Schleswig-
Holstein dispute. Were the question of right so
indisputably clear and undoubted as has been re-
presented here by several, such different opinions
would hardly be still entertained, and the matter
would long since have been settled. The Emperor's
Government will have the opportunity of showing
the stand-point it intends to take up in the question
at Frankfort on the 6th of April. Austria is in a
position, by her co-possession of the Duchies, to
prevent a solution disadvantageous to her interests,
and to guard the well-founded claim of the Ger-
manic Diet. (Cheers.) Prussia enjoys similar ad-
vantage.° with the same rights, and we are strongly
of opinion that it is just the much-abused diplomacy
that will succeed in bringing about a solution With-
out endangering the good understanding with Prussia
which, notwithstanding all assertions to the con-
trary, it is my profound conviction has hitherto kept
off the interference of foreign Powers in German
affairs. I look upon this still as the basis to a greater
union of Germany, and therewith also to the eleva-
tion of her reputation abroad.

A less th-oughtful policy would probably have
already involved us in a war, upon the dimensions
and results of which I must refrain from giving any
opinion. Whether our financial difficulties would
thereby have been lessened, and the development of
our constitutional progress would have advanced,
are questions which hardly seem to require an
answer."

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