Tue papers by this mail are taken up, to a large extent, with threadbare Irish questions and such topics s affairs in Suakin, us discussed in the House of Commons, which we hare since beand have been more or less settled by force of arms. And they have nothing to say on these topics which has not been said before and quite as well. We pass these by and come to a really interesting article in the Spectator on the strength of the Hapsburgs. The Emperor Francis Joseph entered on the 3rd December on the fifth decade of the reign, he was called to the throne when the Empire was in dire straits; he was obliged to call in the help Russia to put down the rebellion in Hungary; he has lost his Italian province and after all these misfortunes and discom figures the Austro-Hungarian Empire seems as strong as it ever was. Hungary has been reconciled; the protectorate ut the pire has been extended eastward over Busnia and Herzegovina, and the
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