The protracted crisis in Hungary is over for the day.
Baron Banffy has resigned, as was predicted by the Times correspondent some weeks ago, but his successor, M. Koloman Szell, is still not firm in the saddle. He is supported by the Liberal majority, having reconciled all the divisions of the Liberal party, but there is no proof that the Opposition will not whenever he irritates them resort to the obstruction which was fatal to Baron Banffy. At the same time, the German dis- contented in Austria proclaim that no modes virendi with the Slav majority is any longer possible. It looks, in fact, to an outsider as if constitutional government within the Empire had become too difficult, and that the Emperor, supported by a union of the German and Magyar Nationalists, most rale by preroga- tive. This, we say, is what looks certain, but it must not be for- gotten that in Austria nothing ever comes to a head, and that if the Emperor insists on a working compromise all the parties may silently agree to await his decease as the time for commencing a final struggle.
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