New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-12
AUSTRIA.
PROGRESS OF THE GREAT CRISIS.

1t is with a mingled feeling of grim satisfaction
and supersttious awe that the people of Vienna
witness tie dread succession of suicides, disclo-
sures and down-brcaks for which many months past
have continued to ill the pages of our State annals
Never before has merry Vienna borne so sinister
an aspect, not even when writing under the IRON
heel Of the Croat, nor when thunderstruck by the
disastrous message from the MinciO. Then there
was n struggle going on with corporcal foes; but
now some invisible pestilence seems to have seized
upon the body petite, and with disgraeeiul hand
to wither lis most conspicuous members. Injured,
however, az Vienna has become in these latter
Tin IS, to terrible moral shocks, it stood aghast ut
tn sudden rumor OF the suicide of Baron Won
Bruck, the late Minister of Finance, popularity
considered the last iororn hope OF the Austrian
monarchy. From the report OF the physicians IN
trusted with the inquest on the body, it appears
that the Baron had given with his razor several cuts
TO lis threat and his wrist. The formed proved
superficial but the latter had opened vein, so that
his death on the morning of The 23d, ensued III con-
sequence OF bleeding.
Baron Won Brlick, at the beginning Of 1913,
still q Tricstine merchant, had never, since
his entrance into the State service, discon-
nected himself from his old mercantile relations
in the great maritime emporium OF Southern Ter
many Now it is known that very eminent Irlest-
Inc firms. among which | may mention Messrs.
RivolteIa, Peruga, and Mandoto (Rivoltela being
the brother-in-aw of the late Minister of Fnance),
were involved in the inmica proceedings relative TO
the monstrOus frauds Of the late Gen. Eynatten.
Baron Bruck had been examined as a witness on
the evening OF the 18th inst His deposition seen-
ing TO necesStae his conformation with other wit
nesscs, and with the accused parties, the Emperor
Lad already on the DIST, appointed the Councillor
Of State Won Peuer his provisional successor and
on Sunday tie 22d. addressed him an autograph
letter, intnsatng his temporary removal from Office
This letter found Baron Bruck at dinner,
surrounded by bis family and some guests With
out betraying the least emotion, or dropping one
single word the contents of the letter. he carried
OH the conversation in his usual pleasant manner;
be- withdrew after dinner to his study, employed
several hours in writing letters and ordering papers,
was present in the evening at performance at the
Italian opera, and on the following morning was
found bleeding IN his bed.
FIcm his commercial office at Trieste Bruck
was, in IS4S, sent to the Frankfort Parliament.
Soon after the Austrian Court dispatched him TO
Trieste there 10 manage the transactions with Adj
mral Abini, who was bOckading the port
Having fulfilled this mission, he created Minis
ter, and, after the conclusion of the treaty with
Carlo Alberto employed at Berlin in the negOtia-
His efforts at bringing about financial union hay
ing failed he laid down his ponterMe and returned
TO private lie. At the time of the Oriental compl-
cations, he was appointed Austrian lnternuncus at
COnstantinOple, where he staid during the whole
progress Of the war; after the termination of which
he was called back to Vienna, there, IN the quality
of Minister of Finance, To undertake the Sissy
plus woIk of tie regulation and restoration of
Austrian finances. Brck was q man of sangIiine
temper and optimist views. No other man would
have proved n match for the task. His business
habits had followed him from the mercantile Office
To the ministerial hotel. For four years he used
daily 10 work from O'Clock IN the morning 10 |
o'clock after midnight, until at length his great
financial ann, the resumption oil cash payments by
the Bank oil vienna, seemed To crown his cXertioDs;
but all was i'll vain. The Italian not only gave
a death-blCw to all his laborious combinations but
by IFS dire necessities induced him to conniye at TIE
surreptitous issue of A. Geo. eco fl0rins of stock
Nothing can be more characteristic OF the
tone and temper Of the Nienncsc population than
the circumstance that Brucks suicide Is imputed TO
Francis Joseph as a crime. Bruck, it is said, had
conniyed al Francis Josephs 1900, 600 ilorins
fraud: why should he not wink at the dedication
Of broher-in-lawl For the popular voice will
have it, that i'll the Eynatten affair Bruch commit
ted only sill Of omission, not one of commission.
Some dark Canarilla intrigue il believed to give
the true key TO his shocking fate. Baron Bach,
the plebeian renegade, who turned out the anne
ddinnee Of the Austrian counter revolution, who
quart. red the COncordat on the Imperial States and
although himself V0ltairian, took the lead Of the
Catholic party, was VIGOROUSLY Bruck's mortal
enenIy-thc latter being Protestant and n Lib
eral. When leaving Vienna as ambassador for
Rome, Bach begueathed his political succession to
CouIt GoukOwsky, who pursued tine same p0liti-
cal ieud against The minister of Finance knew how
Ia eEtaugle HIM in the mCEhes of judicial prosecu-
ton, and finally, with the help of the Emperor's
cOness0r, goadcd Francis Joseph into sending to
his only capable minister the silken string. The
Councillor Of State, Won Pleucr, appointed as his
successor, Is sald to be n notorious tool of Coli
kowsky and Bach. give these rumors for what
they are wortl-nOt as statements of facts, but as
expressions of tie state of the popular mind.
The agony to which the Italian war reduced the
Austrian Government, seems 10 have impressed upon
it the necessity Of reyenging its misfortune on its
culpable officials aud The latter, face t. face with
the ruins OF the old state fabric, seem unable tn
survive the exposure Of their crimes. At Paris
/ need net tell you, crime has ill now proved sue
ceestul, and carries its head high. The highest
functionales are notorious swindleis gamblers and
foIgrrs. Consequently, when by accident some
subalterh general, project, public contractor, as
has sometimes occurred in the last months gets in
VOWED in criminal action, be will always be found
tO accept trdHohomost as it il called his new posi-
ton, prefer the bagnio to the grave and take boldly
the chances OF the future. In Prussia the men of
the condemnation, who, during their hold of
power had made somewhat free with the penal
law, show also d bold front, relying ON the coward
lee Of their and rivals who feel afraid OF
furberng the revolutionary by the disclosure
of official intumy. The ex-presilent of the Minis.
try, Herr Won Manteulel, was VIGOROUSLY in
vowed in the Potsdam piter of dispatches, and
more 1ian suspected of having abused his
position by gambling operations on the Stock Tx.
change. Herr v. d. Heydt, who stll administers