Count Beust, in a farewell speech to his friends, admits
that he was dismissed and quitted his great post unwillingly, and a tele- gram of Thursday affirms that there is great difficulty in keeping the new Ministry together. There is also a state- ment among the bulletins that the Bohemian elections to the Reichsrath are to be "direct." If that is so, we shall see events soon, for direct election would swamp the Germans, and the Ger- mans will not stay swamped. Should they pronounce for annexa- tion to Bavaria and the German Empire, the position of the Haps- burgs, of Prince Bismarck, and of the Czechs will be not a little embarrassed. The Austrian Emperor can hardly sabre Germans for wishing to join their brethren without calling up a storm of resentment ; Prince Bismarck does not want Bavaria to be aggran- dized, or the Liberals of the Empire to be strengthened ; and Bohemia, which would then be almost a German enclave, might sigh for her rights for ever.
