17 OCTOBER 1868, Page 3

Nations find it very hard to accept geographical facts when

at variance with their instincts. The Czechs will not see that Bohemia has become an enclave of Germany, and agitation for -Czech autonomy has risen to such a height in Prague that the Kaiser has been compelled to suspend liberty in the city by de- cree, to appoint the Lieutenant-General in command Governor of Bohemia, and to dismiss the municipal police. The immediate -occasion of the decree was a series of riots, advertised to con- tinue every Sunday, and a bill of indemnity will be demanded from the Reichsrath. With the Habeas Corpus suspended in in Ireland, criticism on such " exceptional " measures scarcely lies in our mouths.