Year: 1866

don Times OF Oct. oUtn mas a Characteristic ar
ticle in relation to Austria and the troubles
gathering about the throne of the ill-starred
Francis os phi The Times, always the st un III
ally of the hapsburgs so long as they were pow
erful and prosperous, now in their day OF mis-
fortune discovers that Europe has no use for
them. Though as coming from such source
it has very ungracious sound, there is yet
much truth in the following:


Austria has had at all times a great many
friends in this country. Since the cession of
Venetia, we will venture to say, she has hardly
an enemy. 1t is difficult to withhold sympa-
thy from sovereign the butt of such constant
and undeserved adversely. But to suggest an
escape Tor hln out of his present difficulties
seems task beyond the power of man. Avstri1
as an Empire out Of date. The house OF Haps-
burg was put in possession OF vast estates al a
time in which the idea of nationality conyeyed
no meaning. 1t was said of the Princes of the
House of Savoy that geography did not allow
them to be honest men," 1t may be said of the
Austrian Emperors that their position render
ed any other form of government than absolut-
ism impossible in their States. Austria aCds a
mere 0bStrdctiOn--a dynasty, a court q bureau
cracy, an army What she has been from the
the beginning she will probably continue to
the end. The discordant races under her scep-
tire can hardly be kept together upon free and
equal constitutional principles, Austria must
seek her basis an one Of her ndtiondlities to the
detriment of all The others. 1t was on the Ger
man hitherto that her strength was grounded.
Should the ruling power depart from her pres
ent centre at Vienna, should the seeptre fall
from the German, where is there another hand
in the Empire able to wield it? As in the OF
toman Empire, so in the Austrian, nothing
seems easier than to drive out the ruling race!
Bat nothing is more difficult than either to sub
stitute another race in its stead or to keep to-
getse1 the uGrious races on terms of freedom and
equality. There is no course for the Emperor to
follow that is not open to objection, to serious,
almost insurmountabte objection. =
I 1t is easy to find fault with everything he
may do; almost impossible to advise the thing
he should do. The Magyar and the Czech will
henceforth be scarcely amenable to any other
rule than that of absolute force, and it is not
clear whence sufficient force for their subjuga-
tion is to come. Schemes of confederacies, of
personal unions, may look very plausible in
theory, but practically they will battle the efforts
of the wisest ruler. Should even the means be
found to reconcile the aspirations of the Czech
and the Magyar with the interests of the Mon
archy, the virtual independence OF the main ma
tionalities with the authority of the central
Government violence would still probably
have to be exercised upon the sub-natinnalities,
among which dissatisfaction is equally rife.
We have seen how any measure intended to
win popularity with the Poles of Galieia has
turned out obnoxious to the Ruthenians living
side by side with the Poles on the same terri
tory. In the same manner the Magyar in Hun
gary can hardly be propitiated without giving
offence to his Croatan fellow-subect and any
favor shown to the Czechin Bohemia is resent
ed as an outrage BY his German neighbors. The
only safety for the government has hitherto
been sought and found either in pitting the
hostile races one against another, or in muster
ing up sufficient military fcrce to crush them
all. Our age hardly admits Of either policy, and


q mag, therefore, be questioned hotc long 1t a0M
admit Of suct a state as the AustriGn Empire.
The battle of Sadowa has reuedled the ertstenoe
Of another sick man an Europe. Sick men,
il is trne do not always die at once; there are
chronic, and there are even curable infirmities
but all the symptoms exhibited by the new pa
tient seem to point either to the necessity of
violent remedies or to inevitable dissolution


BEGINS TO SEE IT-The Norfolk (va) Old
Donainion has got a little light from the cleo
tions. This is the way it talks of the Demo-
cratic party of the North:


The immediate cause of this result is trace
able to the Democratic party of the North
They made halfway pretensions in their sup
port OF the Conservative movement inaugural
cd at Philadelphia, and, as we predicted, have
come out of the contest second best. They un-
of party aione, and have faiied. By throwing
away. the chances offered at Philadelphia, by
the National Convention, and falling back up
on the strength of their old party, they drove
the Conservative Republicans to the Radical
side of the contest and converted thousands of
men, who should and would have worked with
them, shoulder to shoulder, under Conserva-
tive leadership, into political! enemies The
fact is, the Democracy of the North, in their
attempt to save their name and old party Or
ganization, have not only suffered defeat, bat
haze proved their friendship for the South to be
nothing more than a desire to use her as a cats
pdaO to take Northern Democratic chestnuts, of
the Hoffman, Morrissy, Wood, Vallandigham
& Co. stamp, out of the fire. Ii the Democrats
of New York had nominated Gen. Dix and
consigned their old party name to the shades Of
the past, and come out as the National Union
party, there is nothing more certain than that
they would have carried the State by large
majority. But they followed in the wake of
Pennsylvania and repudiated the Conservative
movement, and like the Heister Clymer party,
have been beaten. The dissolution Of the Dem
ocrdttc party, an 1860, at Charleston scds final
1t can neCer become great national party again.
Like the old Whig party. it is numbered
among the things that were, and all attempts
to revive it wild end in defeat. The friendship
professed by these old partisans of the North
for the South is nothing more nor less than
political farce, poorly played at that, and the
sooner zoe make up our minds TO this fact the
better it will be for all concerned. We have
had enough of these political Bourbons. They
have ruined themselves, the Conservative
movement and given the Radicals the reins of
Government"