The Times' correspondent at Vienna sends very careful accounts of
all Parliamentary struggles, but for some reason which we do not perceive, he habitually exaggerates their meaning. There is a struggle going on in Hungary, and another in Austria, but neither, involves any serious crisis. The Hungarians wish their Anti-clerical Bills to pass, and the Court does not wish it ; but the sensible Magyars and the sensible Emperor are pretty sure to come to an agreement. The difficulty in Austria is greater, because there the
demand is for a wide suffrage which would drown the Germans and perhaps make the Socialists formidable ; bat even there a compromise is possible. The Liberals will be content for a long time if they obtain an aboli- tion of the present complex system, which gives the aristocracy too much power ; and this could be arranged without danger to the Constitution, in which, moreover, the executive is left exceptionally strong. The break-up of the present alliance of three parties by which the Government is supported, would unseat the Ministry, but would not render the Constitution unworkable ; and that is the only grand danger to be feared.
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