The Anti-Semitic feeling in Vienna has risen to great heights.
The Municipal Cotmoil has elected the leader of the party Burgomaster of the city, and the mob attacks members known to be friendly to Jewish liberties. The Liberal party in the Cis-Leithan Parliament has been compelled to declare formally that unless such excesses can be prevented, it will retire from the coalition which supports the Government ; and there is, according to the Times' correspondent, serious danger of Parliamentary Government in Austria being made impossible. The Emperor has, accordingly, intervened ; and the Governor of Lower Austria, under his statutory powers, has dissolved the MuniciPal Council, replacing it by an Imperial Commissioner and thirty assessors, fifteen of whom are Anti - Semites. This arrangement is ostensibly to last only for a few monthp, but it is so certain that a new muniopal election would result in a heavy majority of Anti-Semites, that government from above may last for a considerable period. The party, in truth, unites the more rigid Clericals, now very strong in Austria, with those who detest all capitalists, whether Christian or Jewish.
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