The difficulties of Count Khuen Hedervary, the Hungarian Prime Minister,
are summarized in a telegram from the Vienna correspondent of the Times in Thursday's issue. They are aggravated by the prospects of co-operation between the Kossuth and Justh groups ; the chances of his pacifying the Opposition until the Two Years' Service Bill is passed by a franchise reform scheme are prejudiced by his recent action in utilizing the idea of abdication for party purposes; while the suspension of the Croatian Constitution by converting the Ban into a dictator has provoked threats of obstruction among the Croatian deputies in the Hungarian Chamber. Croatia' brief respite from repression in 10054907 renders it unlikely that a reversion to the old strait-waistcoat tactics adopted by Count Khuen Hedervary himself will "again receive the compulsory servility of yore." Indignation against the tyrannous methods of the new Ban-Ditator, M. de Cuvaj, has spread through Dalmatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and a number of students from Agram have been invited by their Ser- vian colleagues to Belgrade, where they will be the guests of the municipality. We are left with the impression that Count Khuen Bedervary is deliberately forcing the pace, though the correspondent abstains from indicating what are the precise motives which actuate him in this provocative policy. Here,. however, the " i's " are dotted by " Scotus Victor " in our correspondence columns.
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