o are able to look at both sides of the question are of
opinion that separation would be a great misfortune for both countries.
Austro-Hungary is now a great and powerful kingdom, holding a position
in Europe which enables her to preserve the balance of peace in the
eastern portion of that troubled continent.

With Austria and Hungary divided into two small kingdoms with separate
aims and interests, Turkey could not be held in check any longer, and
the Russians, who are so full of ambition for power in the East, could
do pretty much as they pleased.

The Hungarians are supposed to be a very wide-awake people, and able to
comprehend the true meaning of a political situation. It is therefore
supposed that in the present crisis they are not striving so much for
freedom, which would be a disadvantage to them, as for the supremacy in
the two kingdoms.

This idea is outlined by Kossuth in a speech made by him the other day,
in which he said: "We want a separate army and separate treasury. The
King of Hungary should be Emperor of Austria as a sort of extra
occupation. Vienna (the capital of Austria) is already a suburb of
Budapest (the capital of Hungary), and in time Austria will become a
collection of provinces attached to Hungary."

* * * * *

Rioting still continues in Prague. The troops are patrolling the street,
and special guards have been stationed at the places where outbreaks are
feared.

Numbers of arrests have been made, and it is said that the prisons are
so full that it has been found necessary to take no note of the smaller
offenders, and only hold those persons who are accused of serious
crimes.

In Vienna there has been a demonstration, unfriendly to both Hungarians
and Bohemians.

One morning the inhabitants of the city awoke to find the town covered
with flaming red placards.

Some of them read, "No new compact between Austria and Hungary"; and
others, "No language laws. German is the national language."

These placards naturally aroused a great deal of angry feeling between
the opposing parties. The police tore them down, and made every effort
to find the persons who had posted them, but without any result.

* * * * *

The Treaty of Peace between Turkey and Greece has been finally signed by
the Powers interested.

Little notice has, however, been taken of the fact; matters in Europe
are looking so threatening that the affair of G