The Vienna Tagblatt of Tuesday publishes a, report of the
drift of an interview, of an hour's duration between one of its staff and Count Andrasey, on the subjeet of the Count's poli- tical aims, and his reasons for resigning. According to this statement, the resignation was most reluctantly accepted by the Emperor, out of regard for the Count's health, and was not .due to any, even the slightest, political divergence.- The Count warmly defended the occupation of Bosnia- and the Herzegovina, saying that without that step Austria would have abdicated her rights in the East. He hoped the oocupation of Novi-Bazar would be effected without bloodshed, and took credit to himself for the Convention concluded between Austria and Turkey on the subject; which would obviate, he said, any impres- sion that in taking Novi-Bazar, Austria was • on her way to Saloniete Her real object, he deolared, was to de velope her cow. morcial relations with Saionica, to secure her position in Bosnia, and carry out more fully the Treaty of Berlin. He pointed out that all that Austria, had done, had- beenxione without any misunder- standing withl Russia, Finally, he intimated that his successor would be chosen to pnrsue the samepolicy, and as his successor seems to be Baron Iloymerle, the 'second Plenipoteutiary at.
Berlin, that intimation seems, on the. not 'improbable.
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