NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE twenty-fifth anniversary of the Emperor Francis Joseph's coronation as King of Hungary occurred on Wed- nesday, and was marked by a grand reception given by Buda-Pesth to its Sovereign. The Emperor-King came in on Monday from Vienna, and rode from the railway-station to the Palace surrounded by all the nobles of Hungary in gala-costume, and was welcomed by the whole population with enthusiastic cheers. The festivities lasted three days, and the King expressed to deputations from his Parlia- ment his gratitude to the advisers who had assisted him in reviving the Constitution of Hungary. The gladness of the people and the graciousness of the King are creditable to the magnanimity and political sense of both. They fought and hurt each other more or less for nineteen years, from 1848 to 1867; but they could not dispense with each other, and now they have been reconciled for twenty-five years more. The strangest thing in the whole matter is that the reconcilia- tion was preceded and produced by terrible defeats from France and Prussia, which in no way injured the Emperor-King's authority when he had once yielded, and which now seem forgotten on all hands. Francis Joseph must have great diplomatic tact, as well as that high Cmsarean pride which enables him not so much to forgive as to forget resistance. "Austria" as a whole has never, perhaps, been stronger than it is now, though, as always in its history, it has to face the gravest external dangers.
