THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE AND THE POLICY OF COUNT BEUST. PART I. THE NEW CONSTITUTION. BARON BEUST was appointed Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs in virtue of a decree dated Prague, 30th of October, 1866, and signed by the Emperor Francis Joseph I., who was then travelling through that part of his dominions which had suffered the most in the recent disastrous war. This was, however, not the first time that the name of Baron Beust had been connected with the destinies of the Austrian empire. At the Congress of German princes held at Frankfort on the 17th of August, 1863, the attention of politicians was directed, by the public press and otherwise, to the then Saxon Prime Minister, and the idea of one day securing his diplomatic talents and services for B |