The Austrian Parliament was opened on Wednesday, by a long
speech in which the Emperor complimented the Bohe- mians on their re-entry into the Reichsrath, which was declared to be " a step towards reconciliation and a good understanding." Important Bills for the administration of the Army and of Bosnia would be submitted, and Bills imposing now taxes sufficient to meet the deficit of the year. After enumerating some domestic measures, the Emperor declared that he was in good relations with all Powers, and added :—" The Berlin Treaty has been carried out in all its essential conditions. The entry of Austrian troops into the Sandjak of ItTovi-Bazar has been. accomplished upon the basis of that Treaty, in amicable accord with the Porte. The Government is now enabled, and it will be its main task, to devote its full attention to fostering with unremitting care its economical relations with the East." The meaning of all this is that at Vienna the extension of Greece and the reforms in Macedonia, both arranged in the Treaty of Berlin, are not considered " essential conditions," and that Bosnia has already ceased to be a province militarily occu- pied. It.ie to be legislated for by the two Parliaments, not con- trolled, like an occupied district, by decree. It was necessary that Austria should have Bosnia, and any government, or even anarchy, is better than Turkish rule, but the selfishness of the Hapsburgs, content if only they get provinces,comes out strongly in the speech.
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