The struggle between the Magyars and their King is developing
into a struggle between Hungary and Austria. On the 16th inst. the Emperor published at Chlopy, a little town in Galicia, an important Imperial Order. In it he highly praised the condition of the Army as revealed in recent manceuvres, and declared that he "must and would hold fast to its existing and well-tried organisation." His "Army must know that he would never relinquish the rights and privileges guaranteed to its highest War Lord," even though "its stout bonds of union were threatened by one-sided aspirations mis- apprehensive of the high mission it has to fulfil for both States of the Monarchy. Common and unitary, as it is now, shall my Army remain." This Order has been received in Austria with rapture, all Diets in session sending congratu- lations; but in Hungary with dull fury, the Magyars thinking themselves insulted. Both sides will be most un- willing to resort to force, but a quarrel which interests the soldiers is always dangerous, and it may be difficult without a Budget to levy taxes.
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