Year: 1878




Austria in Trouble.


It is recorded on authority more or less
trustworthy that certain man of the chill
dren of Abraham was about to indulge his
palate with a savory cut from the forbidden
animal, when, as he contemplated the first
juicy mouthful held for moment at the
end of his fork, there came great clap OF
thunder, and he dropped his fork and
hastily covered up the dish, muttering in
his trepidation, '.What q fearful fuss about
a little piece of bacon"


Count Andrassy is in a position to sympa-
thize with this worthy and to make sim
liar declaration, in view of the storm that is
SO rapidly gathering and likely to explode
with such force over the poor little indul-
gences us to forbidden pleasures that Austria
ventured upon in accepting at Berlin the
proffer Of share in the spoil OF the Otto
man Empire. Hungary is to illuminate the
wrath of an exceedingly noisy portion of
the people of the hybrid and composite
Hungarian monarchy, and the storm
once up it may 60 beyond even what the
Hungarians promise themselves. In the
thirty-fve million subjects of the
monarchy there are of Hungarians
proper, or Magyars, about six millions,
the remainder of the population of the
Kingdom of Hungary being of other races,
and of races that in final analysis of SYM
pathies would perhaps not be actively in
favor of their nearest neighbors. But these
Hungarians have always been as the Po-
landers also always were-noisy and cam
tankerous out of all proportion to their
physical, intellectual or numerical impor-
tance in the monarchy; and the Ministry
that believed it could be indifferent to their
objection in the annexation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina--and which, in fact, could
have been Indifferent if its military opera
tions. had been crowned with O sweeping
and brilliant success-is in a very delicate
position, now that it is compelled to face
them burdened with an exceedingly dis
graceful failure. It has shown them that it
is not to be trusted as to any pledges Of
respect for their sensibilities in regard to
increase of territory; and it is naked before
them as to an unpleasant state of the
finances and q calamitous use of the army,
and they will push it to the WALL They
will compel it to reckon with them. relent-
lessly.


Austria is, as to the definite division Of
her people into parts whose interests are
divergent, somewhat in the position We
were in in the times of the "free soil" agi-
tation that went before the war. Her
Magyars are minority equivalent to our
minority in the people of the Southern
States, who pretended to domineer and
| hector the whole country into continued
and complete submission to their will and
acceptance of their views on all topics of
| consequence in the life of the nation. In
their case as in ours, the spirit that sup
| ports this temper is the same, and the
motive is similar The Magyars, like all
| isolated and narrow minded races of men,
believe themselves to be personally superior
to other human creatures and the South
erners had the same fancy. They are, in fact
| good soldiers hardy, resolute and OF
| indomitable spirit-and the Southern men
were the same; but they have not
such confidence in their superiority rs to
trust to it their future in the monarchy,
and they have taken as to additions to the
territory of the monarchy position sub
| stantially the same as was taken by the
shareholders in regard to the Territories.
In fact, they have gone further; for the
shareholders did not declare that there
should be absolutely no moro free States,
while the Magyars stand in resolute hostil-
ity to the acquisition of even an inch OF
nom Hungarian country.


Change Of Ministry will be no great
calamity to issue from this event, for the
Count is not one of those miracles of politi-
cal sagacty and force that it is an injury to
country to have sent to private life But
the Hungarians will try to push their case
beyond that. They will endeavor to force
upon the government the abandonment of
the position taken at Berlin in regard to the
occupation of Bosnia, and that will make
peculiar international complications.


PERSONAL INTELLIGE ENCE.