New-York tribune., 1873-05-15

coffee in Europe: his near resorts among the
beautiful hill-skirts Of the Alps; and, most OF
all, the enjoyment of a social life which may
be conventional in it's forms, but is never cold.
The history of their more recent political deVel-
opment shows the Austriano IN very advantageous
hight. 1913 was here as elsewhere In Oer-
many, season OF Invaluable experience.
IL broke forever 1 trust the aspirations oil
Absolutism; it cut away, with a keen knife,
the fantastic and visionary outgrowths of the Re
publican spirit and became, after the first depress-
ing reaction was over, the source of a sound intel
ligent development which has in q great measure
reconced both parties. The Imperial Government
was never so popular before, because never so
liberal There still disturbing elements as there
probably always must be where so many jealous ma
tionalties embraced in one political system. The
Austrian statesman has harder task than any other
of his European brethren; but it has been made
somewhat easier since the day at K0nigsgr;itz
moved source of continual emulation and intrigue,
and restricted his energies to the internal interests
of the Empire.
Vienna always was an expensive city, and 10 now
shares in that rage for speculation which has
inundated all Germany within the last two years,
and is fast making an honest and comfortable
existence difficult as in the United States. The
people, this year are infected with mania for
getting rich between the 1st of May and the lst of
November No art, great or small is left unemployed
in the general mania for emptyng the pockets Of the
hundreds of thousands of strangers who are ex-
pected. The cheerful and cordial attention which
used TO find in the hotels is temporarily lost ;
while the lack Of system, the easy convenient ways
of the people, to which one soon adapts himself In
ordinary times becomes o serious difficulty III these
crowded and impatient days.
The weather, since my arrival, five days ago, would
be insufferable if we were not obliged to suffer it,
From morning till night an ICY throat-cutting wind
blows down from the NOrc and Paunonian Alps;
the dust careers in clouds down the hackess streets
for the hackmen are all on strike); the sky is
steely gray, with weak billousooking sun visible
at times; and we 60 about with premOnitions of in
fuenza, bronchitis and rheumatism in our lungs and
bones. The foreign visitors must keep indoors for
the most part, since the streets are not
unusually thronged, and strange faces even
in the Praerstrasse-the main avenue leading
from the city to the Exposition building-are not
very numerous notice moro Hungarians than any
other nationality. The Slowaks, in their heavy
wooen capOtes, looking if they had just crawled
out of holes in the ground, are very plenty, thou
sands of them being employed as aborers, and there
is a slight sprinkling of Roumanians and Turks;
but all the cosmopolitan picturesqueness of the crowd
is yet to come.
The banquet given to the foreign representatives
of the press by the authors and journalists of Vienna
last evening was as gracious and graceful in design
as was brilliant in execution. The spirit of the
company was exceedingly free and cordial, and
first realized the change in the political atmos-
phere of Austria when 1 heard the bold, brave
words of the Viennese editors who addressed
the guests Without unduy exaitlng themselves
they showed a manly cor sciousness of the work
which they have accomplished, especially within
the last ten years. In making the Press of Vienna
an influence and power, they have developed 1t IN
the true dreetOn-in moderation, in dignity, and in
intelligence. The table was sumptuous, and the
strains Of Strauss band made delightful accom-
paniment to the harmony which prevailed among
the different natiOnaties. 1t was nearly two in the
morning before Berlin said goodnight TO Paris,
New-York to London. Sweden TO Russia, and Spain
to Italy. B.T.