Of Count Audrassy's resignation there can now be no doubt.
But it is clearly voluntary, though definitive, and not due to any misunderstanding with the Emperor of Austria, or with the new Ministry. How far it is due to a conviction that the new policy of Austria is not one which it will become him to promote, is another matter. Many hold, and hold with some plausibility, that though Andrassy was willing to go so far towards moving the centre of gravity of the Austrian Empire eastwards as to take Bosnia and the Herzegovina, he sees that Austria must go yet farther, and, as a Hungarian statesman, dreads the growth of the Slav element, which he expects soon to predominate in that patchwork empire. His successor is not yet named, and to find one will be, doubtless, a difficulty. No one like Andrassy will command the confidence of Hungary, who is prepared to do so much as he has done to diminish the relative weight of the Magyars in the Austrian Union.
