The victory of the Anti-Semites in Vienna has been even
more complete than was imagined. The final poll leaves them 91 seats in the Council out of 138, and places the Liberals in a position of total impotence. The correspondent of the Times thinks the result exceedingly important, expects the Viennese example to be imitated all through the Cis- Leithan half of the Empire, and looks forward to a sort of legal rising of the lower-class electors. In Galicia, for instance, the peasants are rejecting the nobles as candidates, and seating their own men. There is much distress in Austria no doubt, and therefore much discontent; but we suspect the pessimist view is greatly exaggerated, as indeed is every rumour that tends against Austrian solidity. The Anti-Semites have only won by aid of the Clericals, who are not hostile either to order or to property, and they cannot do very much even against the Jews. They can keep them out of office for a time, as we used to do, and they may forbid them, as they propose, to enter the Communal schools. As, however, they agree to provide separate schools, this will not greatly hurt the Jews, who can make schools of their own even better than those from which they are excluded. The fears entertained in some quarters of outbreaks like those in Russia can have no foundation, the Government being absolutely pledged to keep down disorder.
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