Count Kalnoky, the Austrian Chancellor, has fallen, after a reign
of fourteen years, during which he has in foreign affairs never made a serious blunder. This is acknowledged even by his enemies, and his overthrow is due entirely to his del i- calism. The Hungarians, who are just now in a fever ch anti-clerical suspicion, insisted through their Premier, Baron Banffy, that the Papal Nuncio should be censured for interfering in their affairs ; and when Count Kalnoky replied that, as agent of a spiritual Power acknowledged by Hungary, he had a right of interference, they threatened to direct their Delegates to stop the supplies for the common Monarchy. The Emperor, therefore, thought it wise to let Count Kalnoky go; and the Hungarians are tranquillised. The new Chancellor will, it is believed, be Count Goluchowaki, a Polish noble of great wealth, trained in diplomacy, whose wife was a Princess Murat. He is reported to be able and accomplished ; but he is as yet entirely unknown to the European world ; and he may, as a Pole, be distrusted in St. Petersburg.
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