... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE.) OUR Vienna correspondent says :-The idea of appointing Herr von Beust to the Austrian Foreign Office has now been definitively abandoned. This statesman, besides being peculiarly obnoxious to Prussia, is also unpopular with many people in Austria. The Hungarians dislike him because he gave up Count Teleki to the Austrian authorities, the Poles on account of his ...

... EPITOME OF OPINION IN THE MORNING JOURNALS, MEXICO AND NAPOLEON III. The Times, commenting upon the failure of the Mexican Empire, thinks there is little cause to pity the occupant of the tottering throne. A crown in our days is often better lost than found, and Maximilian of Austria will certainly find in his archducal competence at Miramar a contentment whicl he could never have enjoyed in ...

... ITALY'S NEW LABOUR. The limnes, commenting upon the financial difficulties of the Italian people, observes that, though the War and Marine Departments in Italy swallowed up more than one-fourth of the public revenue, there are many other items of expenditure which no return of peace will soon strike off the baniance-sheet. There is a civil army in Italy hardly less ruinous than the military ...

... WORKING MEN A ND THEIR TEACHERS. THE congresses which have lately become fashionable are, as it seems, so full of wisdom that they cannot keep it all for themselves. They are overflowing with superfluous good advice, which runs off at last upon their neighbours. Their poorer brethren are benevolently admitted to partake of the crumbs that fall from tables so bountifully spread. The Social ...

... A flock of a thousand is seldom seen without a black sheep in it, and it would seem that the British volunteers whom Colonel Loyd- ianlsay has led to Belgium form no exception to that general rule. Con- spicuously posted on the park entrance of the Belle Vue Hotel is a general crler from the British head-quarters, signed John Furley, Major of 13rgade, thus worded:- It having been reported ...

... A MINISTERIAL crisis at Vienna has, for the moment at all events, brought Baron Beust once more before the world. For the last three months his name was obscured in the misfortunes in which he contributed to involve his kingdom. One of the ablest and most honest, he has been the least successftil of the statesmen of Germany. No one ever succeeded in impeaching his motives. Hle always acted in ...

... Muca has been said of the exhaustion of the coal-fields: but how ?? will our iron mines last when ten tons of steel are used every week in Birming- ham for the one item of steel pens 2 The Resources, Products, &c. &c., of Birmingham, a series of reports collected by the Local Industries Committee for last year's British Association. and now edited by Mr. Timmins, gives a number of startling ...

... EPITOME OF OPINION IN THE MORNING TOURNALS. THE INDIAN FAMINE. The Times commends the step taken by Lord Cranborne to help the starving inhabitants of Orissa. He telegraphed to Sir John Lawrence on Thursday to advance money from the Government funds freely and immediately, and to report to him the progress of distress. In other words, he has for the present taken upon himself the ...

... ROME, Oct. 6. IN the interview of the Empress of Mexico with the Pope on the 27th ult. the Holy Father and his Imperial visitor had a long discussion on the religious affairs of Mexico. The Empress, who is as distinguished for her learning as her personal attractions, appears to have applied herself to the study of theology and the canons, as well as all the intricate ques- tions of the ...

... ENGLAND'S INTEREST IN DELGIAN INDEPENDENCE. The Schturday Revicw holds that the presence of the English ?? at the Brussels festivities points to the question of the amount of ?? which this country has in the independence of Belgium. There are, iM(ICCO( many reasons for objecting, in a general way, to these gigantic ?? excursions to foreign countries. They Inight too easily lead to unpleasant ...

... A statement reflecting most offensively on the private character of the Queen of England has been published in an obscure Swiss journal at Lausanne; and our Minister has, it is said, commenced proceed- inos against the editor. One can readily understand the very natural indianation which prevented the Hon. E. Harris from acting calmly in such a case; but on reconsideration we should hope that ...

... WE spoke the other day of the doctrine of tendencies as the safest guide of political speculators. Mark the existing tendency of events and of opinions on any particular subject : distinguish as well as you can mere superficial movements from steady prevailing currents: place yourself in imagination at the point which the flood will have reached twenty or thirty years hence, unless any ...