The Vienna correspondent of the Times reports a remark- able
speech by Count Albert Apponyi to his Hungarian constituents. He dissuaded them from seeking a revision of the Ausgleich, or, indeed, quarrelling with Austria in any way. There seemed to be anarchy coming on the other side of the Leitha, and a revision of the Ausgleich might then be necessary, but in any case Hungary would remain indepen. dent, for that independence made her the backbone of the Empire, and a great guarantee of European peace. His idea is evidently that while the Hapsburgs are Kings of Hungary they can await developments in Austria with a good deal of calmness, and, provided Hungary herself is not affected, can sooner or later establish a working system of administration. There is probably much truth in that view, but what an advance it marks from the state of affairs in 1848, when the grand danger of the Hapsburg Monarchy was the hostility of Hungary, and the grand object of the Emperor was to use Austria to destroy Hungarian independence. If the Irish Home-rulers knew their business, it is Hungary they would quote, not Norway, as their exemplar.
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