New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-02

him at once into his confidence and his Cabinet.
Immediately after tho close of tho war Baron
| Beust was made Minister of Foreign Affairs
and of the Imperial Household. and to those
functions was added the honorable title OF
Chancellor of the Empire. 1t il probable that
such honOrs were never before conferred upon
u foreigner and q hereto anywhere but III tho
chronicles of knight crrantry.
The energy and good luck with which inc
new Minister labOrcd seemed to vlndicate lib
own opinion and that of his friends that ne
had failed in Saxony only because his field
was too restricted. He certainly had room 1or
the exercise of all his talents in the condition
of Austria. Beaten and broken in war, GRIP
pied with debt, torn by internal disscnsions,
! the imperial royal apostolic monarchy required
| the most careful and energetic manage
mcnt to prevent it from falling to pieces
by its own weight. The measures adopted Tor
the REORGANIZATION of its political system under
the snperyisiOn of Bcust with the full approval
Of the Emperor appeared for a lime eilect'al
| They STAYED the movement of disintcgratl0n,
| they removed the sullen discomfort of the lib
cral Germans, and converted Hungary from an
angry yassal into a willing and Jealous ally.
The establishment of the system OF DnallsIn'
giving complete autonomy to Hungary, Ic1t
the Austrian Empire free to reform AMI COM
plcte it's own fundamental laws. and to frame
and adopt IL constitution in harmony with the
y progressive and democratic spirit OF the age
IL the Empire had been composed exclusive
" of Germans and llungarans this arrange
mrnt might have lasted for some years longer
without trouble: for there appeared to DO no
cause for disagreement between the two halves
of the realm about European questions. Inc
liberal Germans and the MagyaIs alike were
in favor of strict absentiOn from the French
Prussan war; a course Of action which greatly
astoniShcd the 'Tuierics, where Meft"rnlrl hhn
been 80 long like one of the family. Inc
veal, point Of the new system was the national
or rather chronological agitation among the
C2tcls For two ccntnrcs-cycr since The Ge-
feat of the Palalinr Frederick N l62o-thry
lad ho,nc thc lapsburg yoke apparently with
uatirhcr; but suddenly, about thirty years
ago. u cn,iOHs revival 81 interest IN
Czcchish songs and literature began to be
manifest in the Universities ana soon alter
the Slavic party came into beng. fiahZ
pll:chy. the distinguished sc,0lar and ms
torian, bccnmc the leader o; tbs new party
and pre- sided over that prcpoStcrouS Congress
at Prague in 1873, w,irrc the fiery patriots
from different provinces found thy could
not understand each others >lav"nc dial"cts.
and 80 were compelled 10 speak The hated
language of the tyrint But as Pilacky
advanced in age he gradually gave up tie
dire ciion of the movement 10 bis Son-'n-iaw
Ricsrr, who fr,t definitely formulated She de-
mands Of Che tGcch party III the Bohemian
l,ict in 1858. After the war and
the Magyar compromise. the tzrrl> were natn-
rally pqncd by tie ,ircrSS OF the .innglraIs
and encouraged by it in their policy Of stub
bern resistance. Their leaders declared .hcir
intention not to take part in any assembly
that did not recognize as fundamental prn-
ciplc that the sanction Of the Diet Of Che
Kingdom was Indispensable to any modiiira-
ton of the political position of Bohemia i'll lis
relations with the Empire. After years of
wrangling between Vienna and Prague tho
IIohcnwalt Ministry was disposed to accept
this principle and to treat with the leading
men of Bohemia Tor a scheme of fundamental
law which should Dr. agreeable to them. Bcust
| Ounoscd Ills, seeing nothing but endless
| trouble and confusion i'll ;h ST concessions.
| In tho first place, no one could tell how
far the process of diSintcSrltiOn thus be-
gun would extend; and il mere immediate
objection to a Czech autonomy WAS the fact
that three cghhs Of the population of B0he-
mia, Moravia and SicSia were Germans, and
tn, ir right, would probably be endangered by
complete surrender of paramount sOvcr-
eighty. At all events. whatever may have
been the Influences brought to bear on the
EMPEROR, he ordered Count I!ohcnwart to
amend the Czech propositions in the sense i'll
Dictated by Bcust, and 1lOhcnwart. seeing an
agreement impossible, resi- t!lrh. His rcslgna-
ton was followed Immediately by that of t1Io
Chancellor himself, which is said to have been
involuntary. The Empcrors resistance to the
reactiUnary and clerical influences of the pal
ace seemed to have been exhausted. and the
Prime ilni>lcr wa, sacrificed 20 AIS own
victory.
There appears IA yet to be- no deviation from
his policy His SUCCESSOR. Count AndraSsy, IL
hungarian rcvOutiOnist who escaped the gal
lows in 1919, is as firmly fixed in the policy of
Dualsm as Bcust himself. The Vienna Cabi-
net has dccIeed direct elections for the Reichs-
rath, and the Czcchs must either recognize the
authority of the Government and vote for Their
oan deputies, or abstain from the polls, which
will allow the German party to elect their
candidates 1t is not easy to see any chance
for an amicablc arrangement at present. What
was missed with Bcust and Hohcnwar will
certainly not be easily attained with AucrSpcIg
and Andrassy.
EEORGANIZlIION or THE CCSTOaS.
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