All messages state that there is a great surplus in Ukraine.

The question is only whether we can get it in time.

I hope we may.

But if we do not make peace _soon_, then the troubles at home will be repeated, and each demonstration in Vienna will render peace here most costly to obtain, for Messrs.
Sewrjuk and Lewicky can read the degree of our state of famine at home from these troubles as by a thermometer.

If only the people who create these disturbances know how they are by that very fact increasing the difficulty of procuring supplies from Ukraine! And we were all but finished! "The question of East Galicia I will leave to the Austrian Ministry; it must be decided in Vienna.