The Austrian Emperor and his advisers, tired of Bohemian , particularism,
have dissolved the Cis-Leithan Parliament, and intend, if possible, to secure a majority from the Germans,. Conservatives, and Poles. It is said that agreements have- already been made with different groups, under which the Young Czechs and other Home-rulers, such as the Italians of the Tyrol, will be steadily outvoted. The decision has created much excitement in the Hapsburg Empire, and much com- ment abroad, the latter marked, by the usual mistake. The journalists will have it that the cement which binds the Austrian conglomerate is weak, and may give way. It has- resisted thunderbolts, and will resist them again. No Austrian State can depart from Hapsburg rule without instantly finding the fate it most detests. Do our contemporaries imagine that Bohemians want to be merged in Germany, or that the Catholics of Austria Proper are craving for a Protestant Emperor, or that the Magyars -want to be governed. by Slays in sheepskins, Or lost in the great Russian morass P No regional" or race movement in the Hapsburg dominion is a 'final one, or the great House would have perished centuries ago.
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