The elections in Bohemia have ended in the total rout
of the Old Czech party, whose place has been taken by the Young Czechs. The policy of the latter is to oppose every Government formed in the Cis-Leithan Parliament, and in- sist that Bohemia shall be recognised, like Hungary, as a separate Kingdom with a Parliament of her own, a revo- lution to which the Emperor might consent, but which Hungary will not bear, as it smashes all the arrangements through which duality is now worked. It is necessary, there- fore, for Count Taaffe, the Austrian Premier, to find a majority somewhere, and he proposes to seek one through an alliance between the German Members and the Poles. That does not sound to outsiders very hopeful, the Poles not liking the Germans, but it may work for a time, as Galicia, is always wanting favours. In the end, as Bohemia cannot break away from the Empire without annihilation, a mocha vivendi will be discovered ; but at present the Emperor must feel as if he were not ruling so much as acting with about forty most sensitive allies.
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