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LONDON THURSDAY, DEC. 27.

A noon hater is a character not to be despised.
A good railer also has his value. He gives token
of energy, and if this be accompanied by honesty,
nothing can be more useful. DEMosTH ENE-, and
were famous scolds, and there are persons
amongst us who, without exactly all their elo-
quence, have nevertheless acquired honourable fame
as excellent vituperators.
Somewhat to the world's surprise, the Prussians
have come out in this character. A few months
since we were startled at the heartiness with
which a Prussian Attorney-General abused the
English nation, or the travelling portion of it, as
brigands and bullies. We marvelled what Eng-
land could have done to have deserved this burst
of Borussian spleen, until we were informed that
the anger proceeded from one of that ousted and
retrograde party which considers England as the
den of liberalism, and which comprehends Lord
PALM LIAToN with G•111111ALDI and MAZZINI in wide
anathema.

We are happy to see that we have been since
avenged of this old retrograde Maxrsurrn. faction,
not by our own diplomacy, but through the instru-
mentality of one of themselves. The malversation
of the Police Director, STIRSEE, having been
discovered, he was put upon his trial, and a cer-
tain Attorney-General, of the euphonious name of
SCHR AA; was entrusted with the task of prose-
cution. This SCHWARK had an old grudge against
the police, as his colleague of the Rhenish dis-
trict had against the English, and the former
could no more resist the temptation of delivering
a philippic than the other. In a most virulent
speech Sr liW A Rl4 exposed and denounced the con-
duct of the Prussian police for years ; its illegal
arrests and detentions, its meddling with money
claims and trials, in order to extract private profit
from them, and so on. The prosecution succeeded;
for the pleading not only blew M. Sr lEBER out of
the water, but has mined and exploded the police
office itself. And the whole affair, with its die-
closures, gives so complete a handle to the Op-
position in the Chamber, that there is a strong
probability that it will enable them to overthrow
the whole Ministry, HUH INZOLLZAN and ScH LEIN ITZ
included.

The S.:HWARK and Sn►.eze quarrel has indeed
proved the signal for a new onward move for the
liberals inGermany. For the last six months these
have been compelled to pause and look on until it
should be ascertained whether the Austrian Go-
vennuent would prove sincere, practical, and wee-
resale!, in its threatened constitution and reforms.
And it must be confessed that there was nothing
which the thorough German patriot more dreaded
than the Emperor FRANCIS Joervu issuing such a
con.tatution aswould regenerate Austria, and group
and attract its provinces once more in a centre of
unity at Vienna. For ►n Austrian Empire, re-
knit and regenerated at Vienna, would render it
impossible to found or form another at Frankfort
or Berlin.

Some of the most experienced men in Germany
think that the Austrian Eitremm would have
succeeded had he, in following the example of the
CZAR and the French Euranoa, flung himself on
the democracy of the country and set aside the
suggestions of the aristocracy. Had FKA 'll.l
Jowls adopted the conclusions of the min ,rity of
the Commission of Twenty-one, and established
unity and equality of representation throughout
the empire, he would have finally overcome the op-
position of the magnates in the feudal crown lands,
and have nullified in a great degree the popular
party and leaders in Hungary.
The Emremia, however, thought fit to follow
the advice of neither majority nor minority, and
to grant neither the historic institutions of the
Clani.Szochen party, nor the opposite recommenda-
tions of the minority. These were far more demo-
cratic than liberal, and leading men of that
minority were heard to say, that they prized
equality more than liberty, and municipal liberty
more than a general constitution. However, the
Minima maintained Ilaesasw, that immovable
representative of a stationary policy, and by
satisfying no party in Hungary, has placed that
country on the brink of a convulsion, whilst the
centtitutions given to the other crown lands are
regarded with derision.

After Hungary, the countries most important to
orgmize wisely and liberally were the Tyrol and
Styria. For, since the Treaty of Villafranca, these
have become frontier provinces, called upon to
defend themselves against Italian invaaioo. For
this nil it was not merely fortifications of stones
that were required, but the possibility of com-
paring th-ir government and institutions favour-
ably with those of the new Italian Kingdom.
The districts on the western bank of the Lake of
Garda have now sent their deputies to an Italian
Parliament, as well as chosen the members of their
local municipalities. On the eastern bank nobles
and clergy are to occupy half the Diet, the other
half being named by the chief magistrates of the
towns and the highly taxed section of the farmers.
The Tyrolese, at first not ill-affected to the House
of Austria, and ready to defend it against that of
Sardinia, have in a few weeks come to compare
their condition with that of the Italians ; and the
result i., that their arms are dropping from their
hands—and this in the land of Ht iTER.
The

_ it of Hungary is a far more
serious affair than that of the Tyrol ; but it cannot be
handled in a paragraph. If the government wished
to I..ree an insurrection there it could scarcely have
taken steps wore directly tending to it. The