New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-27
AUSTRIAN POLITICS.

There seems to be no reason to doubt that
Count BuoL ScHAURSsrErs will be APP
pointed to the place of Austrian Prime Min
lister, vacated by the death of Prince
| ScHwARzENBEBG. That event has been
followed by decided reaction in the In
fuences controlling Austrian affairs. The
aristocratic party, properly so called. Of
which Metternich is the most eminent rep
resentative, and which ScHwARzENBERG re-
garded with jealousy mingled with con-
tempt, has by his death regained the power
of which the Revolution of l64S deprived
it; and Russian influence, which the late
| Premier hated all the more because in l848
he was humbled before it, and against
which he struggled with all the restiveness
of his own grasping and arrogant nature,
has once again taken the Hapsburg dy-
nasty under its tutelage. With this APP
pointment the Court and Cabinet of Vienna
pass into absolute subordination to the will
of the Emperor Nicholas.
Count BUoL ScHAuENsrEIN was found
by the events of 1849 in position almost
of diplomatic obscurity, and his rapid ad-
vancement is due, in measure, to the fact
that his sister is the wife of Baron MErEN-
DoRFr, the present Russian Envoy at vi
emma. He was present, on the part of
Austria, at the celebrated conference be-
tween SCBwARzENBERG and the Prussian
Minister, MANTEUFFEL, held at Ollmutz,
on Nov. %, 1850, to settle the then pend
ing warlike difficulties between Austria
and Prussia. At that conference MEYEN-
DoRFF presided as the representative of
Russia, and from it dates the subsection of
Prussia and the Hohenzollerns to Austria
and the Hapsburgs. On the 29th Deem
Der following, Count BUoL SCHAUENsrEIN
went to St. Petersburg as Austrian Envoy,
but was recalled on the 18th July last to
be sent to London in the same capacity.
The advent of the Russian and aristo-
cratic party to power in Austria will virtu-
ally restore the system of administration
prevalent before the Revolution, as far as it is
capable of restoration. The aggressive and
aggrandizing foreign policy of ScHwARz-
ENBERG will be laid aside. His idea was
to gain for Austria the commercial and
political control of all Germany, and to
render the Hapsburg dynasty the most
powerful in Europe. This naughty aspira-
ton will now be exchanged for the more
comfortable and quiet endeavor to keep on
friendly terms with all neighboring poten-
tates, and to leave the rest to the superior
wisdom of Russia. AS concomitant to
this change, the policy of Capitalization
at home, so unswervingly pursued by
ScHwARzENBERG, will be relaxed, and the
old method of keeping the provinces in
order by means of their mutual antipathies
will be again taken up.
The general effect of these changes is ia
vorable to the preservation of tranquility.
SCHwARzENBERa's course was one that
must either annihilate every trace ofnation-
al and popular rights or force on the crash Of
general revolt among the overridden nation
alities of the Empire. The new Government
will pursue more conciliatory policy; il
will be sure of the support of the aristocra'
cy, while the people will be flattered by the
hope of moderation and clemency. This
may delay the storm somewhat, though il
cannot prevent it. The mine may not al
once explode, but it extends beneath the
entire fabric of the Hapsburgs' authority
and no influence on earth can do more than
postpone for day or an hour, as it were,
the ultimate convnlsive upheaval.
We doubt whether these changes will
involve the abandonment of the scheme fol
a great Customs Union conceived by
ScnwARzENBERe and maturely elabor-
ated by the representatives of the majority
of the German States lately convened al
Vienna. That scheme had been so warmly
adopted by several of those states and pro-
misses to all advantages SO considerable
that it is likely to be carried out, though
it may be with considerable notifications.
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