instrig.—Another ministerial crisis is reported at Vienna. The conviction appears
to gain ground that the Emperor wilt make con- cessions, and as M. von Schmerling cannot honourably lend himself to any project of the kind, he will be replaced. The Presse, a strong Centralist paper, confesses that the constitution can only be imposed on Hungary by force, and that a constitution forced upon the people is worthless. The difficulty seems to be to find a suc- cessor to M. von Schmerling, the trained statesmen of Austria being men of the old school, and therefore unequal to the situa- tion. This statement, however, still requires confirmation. Mean- while the efforts to obtain respectable men as royal commissioners in Hungary, in place of the suppressed committees of counties, has failed, and the Reiehsrath has no power to vote taxes for the whole monarchy. They must be had nevertheless, and accordingly will be levied by the Imperial authority, thus reducing the constitution to a farce. An order has been issued prohibiting Hungarians of every class from possessing arms without a police certificate.
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