The Triple Alliance received on Tuesday, November 29th, what may
prove a very serious wound. The large emigration into Silesia and Saxony of Austrian Slays in search of labour has alarmed the German authorities, who fear a workmen's movement against foreign competition, and are, moreover, ap- prehensive that their frontiers may be filled by a population not liable to military service. They have, therefore, begun expelling Austrians merely for being Austrians, a proceeding which naturally irritates Vienna. The Cialeithan Premier, Count Thun, delivered, therefore, on Tuesday a very strong speech, in which he stated that ineffectual remonstrances had been addressed to Berlin, and threatened if justice were not done to commence " reprisals." The speech has greatly irritated the German Press, which declares that if Count Thun carries out his menaces all Austrians in Germany, especially Austrian Jews, shall be " repatriated," and accuses Count Than of pandering to Slav feeling. It is probably true that the Count desires to conciliate his majority ; but still, the violent expulsion of citizens of an allied State merely for offering their labour is a measure which in Europe cannot be con- sidered "friendly," or consistent with the obligations of close alliance. We fancy the truth is that the Germane like Austria as a German Power well enough, but as a Slav Power regard her very much as we do China. As the Slav strength within the Dual Empire is increasing every year, this fact threatens the Triple Alliance more than any coolness would between the reigning houses,
