The celebration of the Austrian Emperor's Jubilee com- menced on
the last day of November, and is marked. throughout his dominions, among Slays as well as Germans, by a tone of heartiness rarely found in such " august " ceremonials. Even English residents are carried away by the general feeling, and address "the august person of his Majesty" as if they really loved him, declaring, for instance,that while their first loyalty is for their own Queen," they consider themselves fortunate in sharing in some degree the fate of his Majesty's subjects,"—a pregnant expression. The odd fact about the whole matter is that forty millions of people feel a genuine affection for a King who began life as a thorough- paced tyrant, who is not a man of originality, who has invariably been defeated in battle, and who in all private relations has been so uniformly luckless that he thinks himself under a doom. There must be some quality of true wisdom in him, as well as of that singular dignity, that feeling of being the rightful Caesar, which, as the bitter satirist of his house, Weiss, long ago pointed out, has for centuries been the prerogative and the defence of the Hapsburg family. Their permanent tone is indicated in the remark of the Archduke on a man who intentionally jostled him, " What an exceedingly awkward gentleman." He could not even think that insult had been intended to a Hapsburg.
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