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LONDON, MONDAY. DECBMBER 9.

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Tim terms of agree rseat to which Baron MAN-
TIUTTEL and Prince SCHWARZESBERO came at
Olmeits have the singular characteristic of pleasing
so one person, party, or interest. Austrians and Pnue
lima seem alike to repudiate it. The liberals are hor-
rified; the Germans disappointed; even the exclusive
Prussian wounded in his pride ; and the demos:ate
alone delighted at the failure and perplexity d ail
above them. Constitutionalists end anti-cone=
collets are both dissatisfied. England and
which signed the London protocol, are anonym'",
truly thrown over; whilst the German princes who'
toed the Premien league, es well as the kings who
owed Austrian bidding, see in the treaty reason io '
fear their present desertion and future sacrifice by the
great powers which hitherto made use of them.
In order to form oar own judgment, hewers,
tat
us consider separately the three great qua and
muse. of difference which divide Germany.
The first of these is the Hunan querml, which it
was the peciliar task of the two ministers who met eft
Olmuta to unsettle. In feet, the difference wan as}
ranged before MA/MEMEL left Bettie. The sill
Etecroa, perceiving that he was made the mere teal
of Austria and Bavaria, whose troops were devouring
the substance of his electorate, proposed to fling him-
self on his people, dismiss his minister, restore this
constitution, ana exclaim, like a wise and injured
man, to the HAPSBURGS and Hottentot-Lea/re, "
plague o' both your houses."
But this suited neither of the " houses:" at least it
was displeasing to SCIIWARZENBERO and to MAIO
TEUVITT.L. To have withdrawn the Austrian troops,
in order to see the constitution re-installed, would
have been a triumph over absolutism. This
ECIMARZESBIRO would not allow. Acesedingly he
insisted that an Austrian, as well as a Premien
battalion should accompany the ELECTOR to
his capital, and that the Bavarians and other
federal troops should spread from Fulda oust
the whole electorate, which will thus be
completely eaten op by the military locusts. Thus
the only victims are the poor Hessian Austria
punishes them for making even passive resistance tee
prince in favour of • constitution. MANTRA:IFM
la not sorry to see them punished tor the same eau%
nor to see the ELECTOR eaten up by his allies and
rendered unpopular with his subjects. Nor is be
sorry that the Austrians should afford the North
Germans a sample of their rapacity as hungry and
unpaid soldiers living at free quarters.
It will at once be seen that no parliament, no en
sembly of Germans, men of honour, patriotism, and
spirit, could sanction such Machlaveliam or sub
cowardice as this. M. MAIITEUFFIL, is adopting it,
embraced at the same time the resolve to govern,
not as • constitutioaal statesman, but se the minister
of • despotic prime. And this he had the audacity
to announce to the Chamber, when he declared that
be would continue to hold office by the King's will,
not by virtue of their adhesion.
And herein is the line drawn between the two par-
ties which so lately disputed the mastery in the
Prussian cabinet. It is well known that RADO-
well and I.ADESBERG, and the others who at
first adhered to the m, were for prohibiting altogether
the entrance of federal or Austrian troops into Hula,
and that not merely on strategic ground., but on the
principle that the Diet had no right to interfere, and
that even if it had the right to interfere between a
prince and his subjects, it should have heard both, am
the old diet would have done, and come to eau fah.'
and solemn decision, without at once and with-
out even informing itself, marching to preci-
pitate and violent execution. In upholding sad
acting on this principle, ItaDowat and LADINBIRO
took the ground of Prussian and of Osman counts- 1
tionalieni, resolving to hoist that flag whatever be-
tide. Whereas Mainzer/et has shown hirs,elf
ready to sacrifice all constitutional principle in Prus-
sia, sa well as in neighbouring states, in order to con-
ciliate the good will of the abeolutiet powers.
The Holstein question was the next 'abject of de-
liberation at Dime's ; if, indeed, the negotiators took
the trouble to deliberate at all upon it. For whet
lbw hays dons is merely to elm it over, and•
to establish the status yew ante of 1846. As this'
will satisfy no party, neither Denmark, nor Russia,
nor the Duchies, we may expect to Aso the whole
question fought over again. A that is gained is that
Austria abandons her pretensions to march troops
northwards of Carol for the present. There is, how-
ever, a thoroughly German stipulation in the clause of
the convention of °knots which regards Holstein,
which says, that pot only shall Holstein remain
attached to the German confederation, but it shall re-
tain its union with Schleswig. This is a
sop to the Duchies, and seems to stick sorely
in the throats of those who have stickled so strongly
for the extremes of Danish pretension. In order to
ascertain the worth of such a proviso, we mast learn
whether the union here mentioned means a political
and constitutional union, or that mere material con-
nexion which indissolubly ommecta the two provinces.
Thus, it is well known that Kiel, though in Holstein,
sous u the capital far the German portico, and oven
more than the German portion of Schleswig; that
the university, the law courts, the hospitals, the
admisistrative establishaseets, are common to both'
and that it would be iniquitous and destructive to tie
Sehleswigers to deprive them of their share of and
eeenexion with the establishments of Kiel. Our
Danish writers of the London press speak of &blew
wig and Holstein as they might of England and Ire-
land, whereas, in truth, they are not no mash
separated as Westminster and Southwark. To
separate them in matters of local taxation and
tug would be impossible. And what the
Zrdemand, sad what they and the Holeishma
for, is, that they may have a political mks ail
a restemon representative assembly, sailessor is
their local sad material connexion. It is fa
this, not in any revolutionary or republican,
or ()Milan tendencies, that consist the obstinate
valour and resistance of the Dochies. And the Eng-
lish and French, who anathematise this, do so in
utter ignorance or wilful oblivion of the plainest
hots.
The third, and by far the most important question
treated of et °lauds was the German question. And
we must own, that if the coaditions be sincere, and
drawn up, not ad ogremlion, but to mean what they say,
they do contain large sonesmions, with a recognition
of principles, which may lead to • satisfactory rem-
palmation of Germany. The first point gained is
the setting aside the resuscitated Fraskfaet Diet,
which Austria was to rash into the mauls nun* I
rather than not uphold, and which was mash a /My
of Holies to the absolutists, that the Time awn
entered upon the German question without burning
its usual dose of rank incense before it.
The great rule of the German Diet, it is well liaswa,
woe, that no resolution or reform could be
except by unanimity of votes. The sonsequns":ls
which was, that except the tyranaio and repaindis
Edisto, which the terrorism of Austria, sad the
fear of the princes, caused to pass, nothing war ism
from the diet. No reform, no improvement, no gas&
ewes of commercial maims' of moral or niaterial r 4
ever emanated from the diet. And at the pe
hair, had the diet been restored, not caw single ensa.