outvoted by the Clericals, they seceded, and the
whole work of 1867 was on the point of being overthrown. Were the movement
not stopped the constitution would be superseded, and the union with
Hungary endangered. Beust and Andrassy warned the emperor of the danger,
and the crown prince of Saxony was summoned [v.03 p.0030] by Beust to
remonstrate with him. A great council was called at Vienna (October 20), at
which the emperor gave his decision that the Bohemian demands could not be
accepted. The Czechs must come to Vienna, and consider a revision of the
constitution in a constitutional manner. Hohenwart resigned, but at the
same time Beust was dismissed, and a new cabinet was chosen once more from
among the German Liberals, under the leadership of Prince Adolf Auersperg,
whose brother Carlos had been one of the chief members in the Buerger
Ministerium. For the second time in four years the policy of the government
had completely changed within a few months. On 12th September the decree
had been published accepting the Bohemian claims; before the end of the
year copies of it were seized by the police, and men were thrown into
prison for circulating it.

[Sidenote: Auersperg's ministry, 1871 to 1879.]

Auersperg's ministry held office for eight years. They began as had the
Buerger Ministerium, with a vigorous Liberal centralizing policy. In
Bohemia they succeeded at first in almost crushing the opposition. In 1872
the diet was dissolved; and the whole influence of the government was used
to procure a German majority. Koller, the governor, acted with great
vigour. Opposition newspapers were suppressed; cases in which Czech
journalists were concerned were transferred to the German districts, so
that they were tried by a hostile German jury. Czech manifestoes were
confiscated, and meetings stopped at the slightest appearance of disorder;
and the riots were punished by quartering soldiers upon the inhabitants.
The decision between the two races turned on the vote of the feudal
proprietors, and in order to win this a society was formed among the German
capitalists of Vienna (to which the name of _Chabrus_ was popularly given)
to acquire by real or fictitious purchase portions of those estates to
which a vote was attached. These measures were successful; a large German
majority was secured; Jews from Vienna sat in the place of the Thuns and
the Schwarzenbergs; and as for many years the Czechs refused to sit in the
diet, the go