25 NOVEMBER 1871, Page 2

Baron Kellersperg has failed to form a Ministry in Austria,

and the task has been confided to Count Auersperg, who has succeeded in filling his Cabinet with notabilities most of whom, Herr Plener excepted, are unknown to the outside world. The real Premier, of course, is Count Andrassy, Count Beust's successor, and his object is to find some compromise under which the Germans and the Federalists may pull together, and so avert a secession. Nothing, however, is as yet decided, and all manner of Court intrigues are influencing the mind of the Emperor and affecting the progress of affairs.