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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 21.

Nests was a period of more universal peace than
the present, se that, in truth, nothing could be better
timed than fixing May, IS3I, for our great Exhibi-
tion. And it is the better timed from the too evident
symptoms that the present state of European tran-
quillity does nut promise to be durable. Prince
Aantar announced from the first the great show and
the gnat gathering of things and men beneath Mal
patronage tic he a great era of peace and goodwill
amongst nations. And we are not prepared to
gainsay the prediction. For great wars between
nation and nation are not amongst the evils or the
troubles which threaten. The last three years have
shown boa reluetant either monarchs or people are
to go to war with their neighbours, and how fully
they nicaatere the danger. the expenais. and the in-
coveniences of such a policy. It is not in fact in-
ternational wars which threaten. but civil wars, and
civil wars of a nature to preclude the possibility of
internat• al warn.
It is imptesible to he blind to the fact
that not one of the great countries of the
continent ha. succeeded in founding any thing
like a durable. all equitable. a ratiafaetory
giceernment. The people tried in Dila, each
after their faaliion, to effect reform,. and found go-
vernments. ilhey failed moat miserably, and public
writers have scouted them as the flutist worthless
164;um for not hoeing been able even to govern. The
military, and the kittens of the military. auereetled
to the absclute power which the ptacjile enjoyed,
power more ulasolute titan their sovereigns or cilia's
Moses wed ni 1417. But of this power, although
bawd upon an irresistible army, they have been
ueable to make any more Than a temporary
ww. Sercereigna, and statesmen, and notables
have shown themselves just as incapable as the
nienst mob orator that started up in the streets of
Lilian-. Look at Germany, or contemplate its sepa-
rate kiinnlons. 'Fake Austria. It is there admitted
by the military powers that the empire can only exist
as a military despotism; and that even then elevat-
ion is not sate at home, except it ran extend its in--
dunsee and domination abroad. In other words,
dcapotiani is out safe at Vienna, unless it (aridly
re vied. ever Italy and over Germany, dictates
its lass at Naples and Berlin, as well
as Frankfota The imperial eagle covers all
the ground with its outatretcheal wings; and
et we know that in its own bosom, at Vhaina
itself. the state of feeling. not merely with the
mob. but with the educated Chutes, is more in-
tutisly, mid rabidly, and fearfully nwolutionary,
than Pieria was even in 179'2. Thonighout all Ger-
many kindred feeling.. predierninate. Never in the
mutat-. of the woad acre the- feeling. of forty mil-
lions of null in such a fearful state of silent and
of JJ I !!! NIS unuuimity. On the smciath surface and
around the dormant crater of this volcano the pleni-
patent juries of German wove-reign% have been holding
acetylene council. And of that council all who pricimised
to afford the boat aatisfaction, the antallest guarantee
to its German have been scouted and
satiny& Aut. cracy, Ituaaiati autocracy, with Crean
buy as. that is the pg.:mourn tooodoolr with Senn
Zl:Sittate.. his one and only principle of government.
he coaarelly IldeielllUSlll,4 that this is wrong.
Prusaia Its altrugged its shouldere and submitted.
Not daring to mist .austria in the field, bentiew it
feared its ono canted people. lVen nacre than
Austria. the Prussian court has still found eon-
cel.stion in its sal 'shin. in pencieing that Aus-
tria Its linked its future fortunes and its hold
of Ocitieemy with the perishable principle of abso-
lutism and military dictation. Prussia submits. and
demands the old shoes cra of Pal?. the Frankfurt
Diet. malt all its nullity, its caducity, ridieule.
If the Frankfart !het. iv-instituted, t die good.
it ca it do harm. Aa tin law eau Inas it Klee
un;minnnrsly, any attempt at reformis impossible.
It ineeely the oldidol. Murk up as the pditical
Juggernaut'', to await the hour of final and
nnmiti-
gateel destruction. German people are delighted
with the restoration of the Frankfort Diet under
present eireutuatances. it is a confession of io-
c.lpwity tin the part of their sovereign.: it is. on their
inn, an alielicafion of all right, claim. or hope tat
warm, except temporarily and by titer. It is an
ahantioninctit of the task of reairganiaing. uniting.
or satisfying Germ:my—an nbandonnient of it to the
people. wk. are a;atiii girding up their loins. and
tin k nig up their sleeves. for their mode of action.
The asounts from France, we• are worry to say,
do not gist' us better hopes For the tirst
time +inky the election of law fa X %lawns;
prudent people begin to despair of a legal and ami-
cable aettlement the plain question. how to carry
on gun ermitcut ? The 'Atm,. in an article which
bore the official stamp eil the chief ministerial de-
intiment in Paris. stated the cans- tnely and
plainly e gh in csying. that either the- constitu-
tion inuat Is• sin-diced to the government. or the
government to the eunatitution." Government
of Flatlec meals every-thing : it means the
law Os well Os the mineary, and the chief of the
exeeutive. Naeotaeoa, his gosertintent
and ayseni. cannot, however, be runt' xl without
a change. tit the constitution. 'That change is of the
utmost difficulty to procure. Yet no our supposes
that, if it he not procured. Leiria Naroiros tan he
bawled out of olfiee. and either Cavate;a ee. or JulN-
vit.cy, or Boum ei-x put in, without n civil war.
Whether. indeed, the conatitutiein itself could lw
Avenged so as to admit the prolongation of power,
without bloodahetlaseven this ia doubtful.
M. levaia F teentai, however. has undertaken the
task of procuring them• changes of the constitution.
He is u exceirageoua. a talented. and an honest man.
But se cannot, do not, augur well fur his surevaa.
M. Opiates Balmier was also willing to do hia
uttunat to effect the Kann purpose. But he was less
sanguine of success than M. F %venue, and his cha-
raeter as a politician has not been one calculated to
inspire contact's.. After M. lIAnnIIT.S UnteeellelltS.
what penal' would trust his fortune to him? M.
Rumor is unlucky. And yet M. 11%ararr proposed
the. in lee liberal canna-, that of modifying the law
nape' ting the franchise. and restoring to the better
etas of the people those rights and intimuce which
they aou in Isla.
We must confess that if the chief or sovereign of
the +tate is to be elected by the la ogle. the more
%mice-rail the suffrage the better. There may lee
some ellen*• for narrowing the suffrage which is to
elect those who vote away the- public m 11l ey. ilu?if
a soe ensign is to be electe'd. he ought to be popularly
elected. A mere Doge of Velma, cannot hope to
gave rit France. M. Beano r'S was, therefore. the mast
literal view. but wan it that beet calculated to con-
ciliate opposition in the .Assembly? It is now idle to
initiate. All that is material at present is to be I
swan• that the powerful parties in the Ametubly
are °planed to any change in the constitution. eau-
tiling the PaLatioaer to be re-elected; and that the
earrving of such a law is more and more problematic,
M. Feta nem has appealed to the country through its
0121 lit IVA bodies. The greater the danger, if the majo li
-
rity of these' bodies ekeide on a course. the contrary
the decision of the Assembly; fur this will Nit
airage. Loots N eroaaos to an eater legal and
• course.
cannot, therefore. but entertain fear. for the
: France. and fur the tranquil march of its
aunt. For this we do not throw the blame
PaEsIDLNT or his minister, so much us upon
monarchic parties and their leaders, who are
lug a most selfish and perverse part, that
end either in their niumph or their pro-
ion. Never were certainly such polititid dogs
manger, as Messieurs NEWIT ER. and TILLERS.
cannot enable their own princes to "sign, but
-.0 determined to allow no one else to do so,

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