The German Emperor entered Vienna on Wednesday, and was received
by the Austrian Emperor with cordiality, and by the Viennese with enthusiastic approval. The:entire people turned out, and, it is said, so deep was the anxiety to see the visitor, that the spectators at intervals forgot to cheer. The Viennese, it must be remembered, love the Triple Alliance, not only because it protects the Empire, but because it pro- tects German and Magyar ascendency in what might other- wise become a Slav Monarchy. The reception by the Court and the nobles was, of course, magnificent, but began with a gruesome ceremony. The two Emperors descended into the vaults of the Capuchin church where the dead Hapsburgs lie in stately tombs, awaiting, as they themselves would have thought, the trump of the grand resurrection. The German Emperor, it is said, came back to the air in tears; but the cause of his emotion is not suggested. He can hardly have mourned the dead, whose place in Germany is now his ; but he may have been moved by his brother-Emperor's grief, who saw the tomb of his only son, where his hope of being father of a line of Kings lies buried, and also saw the place where, within no long time, for he is a breaking man, he himself must be stretched out. " Ave, Omar ! Mortui to moriturum saluta- mus !"—that is the cry of the silent, and begets thoughts.
