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London, England, 1848-09-08 00:00:00

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LONDON. FRIDAY. SEPT. 8.

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Thom cannot be a greater contrast than that 'Te-
aseled by the French and Germans. The one all in-
difference, despair, and disgust, bowed down by the
old age and oaducity of political life, the other hill of
seal, hope, and delight, with all the assurance, elas-
ticity, and head-longuess of youth. Panes has a
form of government, created by circumstances, and a
charter has jest been proposed in harmony with those
circumstances. For these to ope Fate and Auffice—to
function, as they say—all that is required is faith
in the principle. But the French have no political
faith. They scorned and disbelieved the monarchy
when they had it : they alike mew and disballerre the
republic, which they nevertheless irrevocably have.
And if they; don't mice care they will fell into the
chaos of the South American repablies, where
mosarcby or republic would be, either of them, a
blessiog, but where both the one and the other is
impoesible.
Yet the French possess everything that the Ger-
mans are striving after—unity, absence of feudal bur-
dens or privilege, of princely, aristocratic, or eccle-
siastical interests apart hum the national ones. The
French have had honour, glory, and European in-
fluence to satiety ; and have still, if they .tre and know
how to use them. In Germany some princely families
have had a certain share of this,lat the honour or
**profit have not accrued to Germany. What the
Germans aim at is to do and to be what the French
have done and been, not certainly in French wise,
er in any base vein of imitation. Fee the German
revolutions have been purely German, without blood
or vindictiveness, or internecine straggle of classes,
and without proscription of any kind. The obstacles
in the way of the Germans ore immense, and they
ere the more formidable, because the German liberal.
are determined to avoid violence or injustice. The
French effected their great revolution by giving full
swing to the worst passions of their mob, and making
the guillotine do its behests. The Germans ate gra-
dually putting down their mob, and without military
intervention. The obstacles in the way of the Ger-
ms= attaining what they aim at are, we repeat,
immense. But their faith and confidence in them-
selves are also immense. The accomplishment of a
pia& revolution is with them a new kind of reli-
gion. It is not merely demoorata or rabble who
eutertain this faith, bat a great preponderance of the
middle classes and a very considerable portion of the
r er. ' German unity and freedom is, therefore, not
VLl"the dream which we are apt to consider it.
is, however, one rock upon which Germany
is but too likely to dash and to be wrecked. This is
the exuberant desire of German liberals to attempt
something or anything in which the Germans an
show themselves united. No matter how great the
object, or how small, they are reedy to snatch
at it, provided it have the one character of
being a national object. Hence the unaccountable
importance given to the question of Schleswig,
lad the almost equal importance which that of
Limburg would acquire, were that of Schleswig
settled. Hence the desire, notwithstanding their
respect for Italian independence, to support Austria
airiest France in the Lombard gingham. A war
with France foe the inviolability of Trieste u • Ger-
man port; a war with Russia for Schleswig as a Ger-
man province—the Germane are ready for either,
simply for the sake of showing themselves a nation.
The greatest and most welcome kindness that any
great power could at this moment show them would
be to insult them.

-11a;c7eli is that the spirit of ft:alarm:ado which
so lately characterised the French has pared in no
small degree to the Germans; and it is not merely
the people, but princes, that have caught it up. Who
weld have imagined or believed, for example, that
Austria, so timid ud circumspect and pacific under
an absolutist regime, should now, disarranged as it
is, politically and financially, under a free one
miss its head, spurn pacific overtone, defy Fiance,
and invite Europe to a warlike struggle P
Pail and Vienna have, in fact, exchanged places
and aphit. CAVAIGNAC is what METTEILNICH was—
sieller, considerate, temporising; whilst M. DOB-
IIRMOM whom no one ever heard of before, is quite a
claiMax—the organiser of victory. Whitt Francs
nail Meshed used envoys to negotiate peace and
an armistice, the Viennese ministry is daily
rag its legions to Italy, sad meditating, not
the mi. of Lombardy, but the Wooden of Ales-
malaria.
We need not dwell upon the folly, the utter mad-
am of web policy, if policy it can be called; for in
the present state of Europe the military aggressor,
from whatever side he comes, is almost certain to be
defeated and put down. We merely wish to point out
the fact that raahnees and boldness are bobs looked for
tow as the characteristics not merely of the Germaa
public, but of German governmsata in lieu of the
doggish and passive horror of movement which
hitherto distinguished them.
Up to the present our main efforts have been
ea he as pails* to coke the French and to rouse
the (humans. We tear that the diplomatic efforts of
three who take upon them the charge of keeping the
peace and balance of Europe must be directed hum-
ble& ins contrary sense, to room the torpid French,
: ad= the mettlesome and, singular to say, the
Germans. The Frankfort Assembly talk
sedately of rejecting the condition of the armistice.
The Archduke Jona and his ministers may overcome
this opposition; bat it will break oat on some other
point, and render the conversion of the anniatioe into
a solid peace as difficult se ever.

Tutor is a pomp in the report of the committee
of the House of Gammons on public Winn% eo
r!:/that it might have drama tears from
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averred the meats. to be :
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There is a melancholy grandeur about thisipicture.
It presents vividly to the mind's eye some Retool..
of /etiolation jaded and wont out by watching all the
taming the doubling' and windings of a nmoo of
lawyers in a railway committee, snatching a broken
demi on the benches of the library, or swallowing a'
chop at BELLOIT'd, to recruit outworn nature to un-
dergo the infliction of a speech from Lord Glows
BWITIPICX _ _ _

There is another way of considering the subject
that may bring its evil consequences home to the
mast selfish among us. The toils which conscientious
members of parliament undergo in the forenoon render
than incapable of taking part in the business of the
house till pest ten at night. All the previous part of
each sitting is wasted in " make-believe" to do bud.
son t or if any reel business is transacted before ten
o'circk, it must be in the absence of the 1• leaders of
parties and the chief speakers,"—in other words, of
the more commanding intellects. No weeder the
bwiness of the country is so exquisitely bungled.
It is strange that the committee, who have pour-
frayed to graphically,. and with so mach feeling, this
absurd manner of going to work, never once appear
to have though, of casting about for a remedy. " The
business of the home," they say, "is continually, on
the increase.' It is more difficult, they remark cube-
where, to make provision far expediting public busi.