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LO.vDON,UTURDAY, DECEMBER 14.

TIIE chief point of interest to observers of the Ger-
man quarrel at present is, whether the great powers of
Austria and of Prussia have really come to a better
undriszandlog, sad whether this is evinced by a bond
fide, hmrover partial disarmament. Disernsament there
oertaioly is : the Pessimism government has dismissed
its second ban, or forbidden it to be raised. This
Pend ban includes the m-n of that age, which en-
titles them to serve when oiled upon, only in garri-
son, silowieg the regular troops usually in garrison
to take the field. In addition to this, the Prussian
Vat-,hies is to grant furloughs largely.
On the other side, the Austrians dismiss to their
hour a tl.e fourth battalion of each regiment, which
liourth hattalion is a band of landwehr, not so wail
organised or diecipliced s the Prussians; and it is
alto t grant farlonAhs. But there is no diminution
on etthrr side of cavalry or artillery, or indeed
ref ofriers. So that we leave people to judge what
dtgreec of confidence the coLtending pudes have in

each other.
What well-informed and official Persians think of
the convention at Oisii'a was fully expressed in the
o
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which we üblished yesterday, as
it at-
tached to that conventiopn. It was tacked tby
Baron Mesrzurrat., when laid before the College of
Princes. Oar Frankfort letter, and, indeed, all ac-
counts from South Germany, represent the Kings of
BAVACI I and WERTEMBUILO, as Wall as tbs Austrian
rite rose in its eNeseled Frankfort D et, to have
been deeply mortill-d by the conclusions of
The f rmer declare that they are a direct breach and
contrey'.etiott of the agreement of Bregentz. The
Preeident of the mock thet,Count TRUN,on reoeiving
the despatch emtaihing the treaty of Ghosts, refused
to common cite it to the Diet, and talked, instead, of
sendi::g in his own resi4nation. The Count re-
mained f,r eight-and forty hours in this state of
anger egad of suspense, after which he did communi-
cate the mortifying tidings to the Diet, of which the
members rose at once in a kind of wordy and choleric
'melds. In the face of all these facts, the Times has
the coolnem to assert that the conventions of Olmutz
and of Warsaw are virtually the same.
Niehirg, bowever, can have been more different.
At Warsaw, Coast BRANDENBERG, far exceeding his
powers and instruction., laid all Germany at the feet
of Austria and Buena, a false step that the poor
Covet paid for with his life. The attitude of other
Prinsian statesosee, aid the calling out of the Land-
grebe r. ;tire. d that step; and the convention of
o.mutz pl eicly eneueb partitioned Germany intotwo.
It tray be that the Austrians have been induced
he enesent to the simultaneous existence on the
German soil of an Austrian union at the same
time with a Prussian one, by having succeeded in
high Meg so mail pricces from the side of Prussia,
rto have a majority to Austria. The result of the
hostile march of federal troops has been, first, to
drive the Persians from Bedell, and to make
Darmstadt and Near leave the Prussian Bund, as
well as to weir. the Inter of Here Cassel in the same
power and leanings. If thus, Austria can rumber
rimiest tier adherents all the powers of South her-
mitic , a. well is that of Hanover and Saxony in the
north, she may calculate, with some .hew of rea-
✓m, that the proposed Prussian union will prove a
league so donointed and feeble as to perish of itself ;
and we must own that this strikes as as the weak
point Lf MANTEUFTEL's policy, which may have
irsist.ti era and gained, in the letter and in
eseining, that equality mid independence for Prussia
as a great dominant power, which be has allowed his
cosatry to be chewed out of in reality. Should such
prove to be the case, i. will, however, be impossible
for NIANTECUEL to meet the Heflin chambers, and
sato r his fall and a new spirit to be given to the
negilatiose, will be inevitable; or FREDERICK WIL-
LIAM and his inisieter, mud determine to relapse to
restate of lhinge fiftei n yetis back. and reign with-
out perliument or press. This evald be eventual
esicide f er Nuns* and for its dyarty.
To any divis on of llerumayletween Austria and
Preesis, oi between Austria' and Prussian influence,
we should not object, for this very good reason, that
it eau it nut Prussia could only exist and
ssaiht tin its isfluenee by teetering or permitting the
developer at of truly constitutional government,
and th-t would ewe produce moral and material
moults, which would render absolutism in Germany
on to part of any number of Germans still subject
to ales:lute princes impossible. Bavarians, Wurtem-
burgers, the people of linden and Franconia, would
no more beer being politically, religiously, and cars-
mercitilly joined to Austris. The princes themselves
and their etatesmen would win perceive this. To re-
astablith an Austrian empire westward of the Inn,
were impossible.
'there is one terrible element of difference, and
material for explosion, which as yet has been little
apparent in Germany, which, if used, and disco-
vered to be used, must add immensely to the invete-
racy of strife. We allude to religious differences. It
is Prussian interest, as well as tradition, not to
awaken any such cause of discord. But Austria
and Bavaria arc, we fest, employing it. The Jesuits,
whom SCHWAB/10111ER° has re-established in
Austria, have already begun to spread into Germany.
It is now unlearnt!, observed that the armies of
Austria and Bavaria that have come to
eat up the winter provisions and revenues of
the inhabitants are quartered exclusively in pro-
reset regions. They occupy Franconia and Hesse ;
and it is already preached throughout the villages,
that it is because of their protestantisee, and of
Prussla's being unable to uphold them, that they are
martyrised and eat up by military requisition. Count
Thus, the President of the so-called Frankfort Diet,
is one of the most active and bigoted chiefs of this
Barn Catholic crusade, which, indeed, we
see undertaken simultaneously at present in all
countries. Witness Germany, Piedmont, France,
and England. In most of these countries
such idle and absurd attempts may be peace-
ably resisted. But in Germany, if such be per 7
elated in, and supported by draryonnades, it may lead
to the renewal of the Thirty tears' War. We re-
commend the partisans in this country of Austrian
and Pi.pal despotism to look to it. Their affected
arthemas of Cardinal WISEMAN will not nave them
from the reproach of having been the organs and the
champions of the new Catholic League.

SOME progress is beginaiag to be made in the great
work of subverting the land monopoly in Ireland.
Several huge aggregations of property have already
crumh!ed to pieces at the sound of the Commissioners'
hemmer. Many more await a similar doom. For
large muses of landed property there ars no bidders
to be found at any price. The territorial delusion is
pa-sing away, and the real risks attendant upon vast
possessions in such a country ere coming to be clearly
nude, stood. A man with a hundred thousand pounds
accumulated in trade or derived from professional
toil, shrugs his shoulders at the suggestion of some
theoretic friend to invest it ail in Munster acres. As
far as 10,0001. or 20,0001. he has no invincible objec-
tion. But to stake the whole of a hard-earned for-
tune in one Celtic parish, requires a degree of courage
not frequently to be found. The result is that to ob-
tain anything. like reasonable prices, the Incumbered
Estate Court is obliged to sell m moderate sized lots ;
and thus an infinite good, apart from all other benefits,
is effected.
For among the entangled evils of the past system
of landed tenures in Ireland, now was greater than
the exorbitant dimensions of estates and the come-
if the proprietory elan is =ay die-
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