The Vienna correspondent of the Standard, who is well informed,
declares positively that the Hungarian crisis is over. The Opposition, alarmed, as we believe, by a passionate movement among the electors, who are paying their taxes in advance in order to show their willingness to support the Crown, have proposed a compromise. They will, they say, abandon their principal weapon, obstruction, if only Baron Banffy, who for some reason invisible to outsiders is unen- durable to them, will resign. Baron Banffy accepts this offer, and it is believed that the Emperor, who would never have deserted him, will sanction his act of self-abnegation. His successor, who will probably be Baron Fejervary, will thus regain the use of his majority, the command of which has never been lost, and the Ausgleich, or agreement between the two halves of the Dual Monarchy will be renewed at once, possibly upon the old basis. The incident, as we have explained elsewhere, is one more illustration of the truth that quarrels in Austria are never pushed to the bitter end. The recalcitrant always discover that they do not mean to break the Empire up. They know there will be a political here- after, and do not in the least know what it will be like.
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