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,ONDON, FRIDAY. NOTEMBER 13.

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IT is a fair teatentent of what ought to be
guiding pr nciple of English policy towards Germany,
to represent its chief obi, ct to be the keepingthat great
country united and strong, in order to resist the dicta-
tion or encroachments that France may menace from
one side, or Ramis from the other. h CAB we most
fully agrees with the Times and Lord ABERDEEN.
Our diff-renee with them lies in the mode of pes-
tering for Germany y
this unit and strength. Thel
ABERDEEN school holds, that this great object was
fully attaiced in 1815 by • federation of prices
meeting in diet, with Austria as its head. Now,
what was the policy, the nature, and the action et
this Diet P And what were its results?
From the day of its first meeting to its cowardly
self-diseelution ire 1848, the Frankfort Diet never
aocompli-hed an act of imperial legislation, except to
nullify constitutions, establish a censorship, appoint
committees to tilt cnnepiracies and punish traitors.
Toe diet was, in fact, a high police court, and noth
else. It was chiefly formed for the purpose of m I
tary organisation' whereas, in truth, it was a system
of military anarchy. The smaller states never bad
their contingent complete. One prince hoarded the
money voted for it ; another spent it in pleasure;
another in architecture and the fine arts. And when
danger threatened the empire from abroad or from
within, the Dist, its authority, and its army, proved
to be a mre piper erection. Prussia aloes wee
ready and efficient to show a mili'ary front to totem-
'ion from abroad. and anarchy at home. Those gnat
intert.al objects, which it was the business of the diet
to accomplisb, such as commercial unity, military
efficiency, national institutions, Prussia alone at-
tempted, and in fact accomplished, Austria and thi
Diet merely acting as an impediment and a drag.
Ttisdiffersoce between the two governments of Ames
tria and Prumia,the former dominating in Frankfort es
well as et Vienna, is not so much to be attributed to
stupidity on one side, or acuteness on the other,
as to the nature of the two countries, and to the
development of the populations. North and west
Germany are in fact two centuries beyond the sAith
and east. Th. y are industrial, they are prates-1
tut, accustomed to municipal rights and institutions,
highly educated, bordering an France and the Low
Countries, and full of the ideas of those advanced
multi. a, as well of those gleaned from England.l
Whilst Prussia is the New England of Germany,'
Austria is its backwoods.
New, when it is proposed to link these two to-
other, is the more enlightened to be subjected to
ate betake/nod mks ? Tots is what Russia natu-
rally de s•red is 1815, for Russia is itself backwood.
France had ni potent voice whilst CEBTLERIAOII
and All V RDELI warellipped Austria, Se rustics revere
the owl, for its antiquity acd its nigbthood. The
federation of 1815 formed for Germany • dark, iron
cage, and made Austria its keeper. North Germany
his been lensing ever since to get oat of this awn
We do not say, that Prussia has gone either wisely or
boldly abet it. But we assert that it is not merely per-
song or petty ambition that prompts Prussia to seek
to make ter own—that is, the intelligent portion of
Oermaey —dominant ; but it is the nature and near,
sity of things. And the nature of things is so strong
that no power or combination of powers will ever again
restore the federation of 1815, or make North Ger-
many remain tranquil in the grasp and domination of
the south. Russia, indeed, has set busily about mending
the old iron cage. Merreanten has furnished the
original plan, and ABERDEEN can help him. But
even Rated& has said that the old eve was not strong
enough, and that, in order to crush liberal and pro-
testant Gei many with a weight sufficient to keep it
down, the Slava:ism and Magyar provinces of Austria
must all be included in the federation. To link the
Prussian to the Croat, and make the same regime do
for both, that has been one of the resolutions of
Warsaw.
Now, we repeat, that it is neither generous,
wise, nor just of England to lend its aid to this patting
beck and freeing up the current of civilisation.
If the object he to make Germany strong,
it will utterly fail; for a re-establishment
of the Frankfort Diet can have no other
result, than to place the entire people of Ger-
many at direct variance with its princes and its
governments. There may be no insurrections, or
attempts of the kind may be put down : Germany
may be kept as tranquil as France is by large armies;
bat the ruling powers of Germany will remain just as
paralysed us those of France are for either military
offence or defence. Establish the Frankfort Diet, and
make even some slight modifications, such as Russia
and Austria may admit, and you stamp upon every
German heart the one thought and the one desire—
revolution—a sanguinary, a sweeping, a merciless
revolution. Writers, who only know Germany by its
" Courts and Camps," should inquire what are the opi-
nions of the rising generation of Germans, and what
those opinions are likely to become by the breach of
every peircaly promise, and the failure of every pow
lar hope. Talk of the unity and the strength of Ger-
many, indeed, and its power of resisting France!
Why the Germane, if now disappointed and crushed,
—the Prussian himself, if handcuffed to the Croat, will
welcome any foreign invasion, whether it come from
French socialist or Russian Cossack. Anything—
chaos itself—will be bailed and prayed for, wherever
Germans congregate, as • deliverance from the
stupid regime which they have undergone for the last
thirty yews and which it is now proposed to thrust
upon them ;gain.
All Germany is unanimous against the Frankfort
Dig, which a minority of its princes has riser
citatal : even this minority having done so la direct
opposition to their chambers, their constitutions, and to
nmverwl opinion. Of all Germany there are but the
Austrians themselves and the southeen Bavarians who
could lend themselves willingly to the service of the I
resuscitated Diet. And it is now attempted to insult
and subjugate the mass of the German people by
swans cf this inconsiderate and unintelligent fraction.
As long as the north Germans quarrelled
amongst each other, when Prussia
__pat down
Saxons, and Hanoverian, quarreled with Hess., thine
were but pasting fends. Bet to Wig, as is now
doing, the Austrians and Bavarians from cia• remote
corner of Germany to put down at the Ober extremity
a population and a cause which, righter wrong, is meet
dear to the North Germane—we ailed* to that of Hol-
stein—this is sowing the seed of a hatred and war be-
twixt
Humus which we shall bear of in years
to come. It Prussia suffer the Austrians and
Bavarians to came north, it will be ea eternal dia-
gram to her. It will even be a distress to Hanover
and will complete the depopularizatism of its king.
No one thing could make the ante at Amtria and et
the Frankfort Dist so utteety sal pansesstly
honed as each an expedition. And us As net *Mk
that any power of any government ma puss* es
North German partisans entering Hohneht
it. If so, Russia meet fulfil its muse% sad advises,
And Prussia, whatever the desire of her geveressmt,
cannot escape the amenity of resistants.
And foe what is all this risk ran P What Ism
Austria care for the integrity of Denmark P WWI