The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-18 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

The State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.

Corn-Wind S.W., light breeze-overcast.
Motu A::-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy.
CAs.Low -Wind W , gentle breeze-partially cloudy.
KING ST OWN (DUBLIN) -Wind W.S.W., gentle breeze-rain.
BRIGHTON-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast.
II A STINGS -.Wind S.W., fresh breeze-rain.
I=ournAmp-ro:1- Wind S.W., gentle breeze-foggy.
FOLKESTONE -Witlit S.W., gentle breeze-overcast.
TuNnurnc se-Wind S.W.. gentle breeze-scud.
BASINGSTOKE - Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast.
READING- Wind S.W., gentle breeze-foggy.
GREEN WICII-Wind S., gentle breeze-overcast.
SWINDON-Wind S., light airs-overcast.
ONFORD - Wind S.W., cairn-overcast.
LEIGHTON - Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast.
Co F STER -W ind S.W., calm-overcast.
CAMBRIDGE-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-cloudy.
R CGDY-Wind N.W., calm-foggy.
p Binmirc.u.tm -Wind S.V., gentle breeze-overcast.
PETE ZISO riouctr-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast.
CRZwE-Wind S.F., light airs-overcast.
MANCHESTER-Wind S., gentle breeze-rain.
Yon K-Wind S., gentle breeze-overcast.
LANcasritn-Wind S.W., calm-scud, rain.
Wiirrey- Wind S., gentle breers-overcast.
DARLINGTON-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-foggy.
Slur -Wind S., gentle breeze- rain.
SUNDERLAND-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-overcast.
13EATTOCK -Wind N.W., gentle breeze-rain.
BEftwicK.-Wind W., gentle breeze- overcast.
EDINBURGH-Wind W., gentlebrecze - heavy rain.
DUNDEE -Wind S.W., gentle breeze-foggy.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine
o'clock :-
CORK-Wind S.W., light airs-foggy.
MuLtreaAn-Winol S.E., gentle breeze-rain.
CA MOW-Win d S.W., gentle breeze overcast.
DUNDALK--Wind S.E., strong breeze-rain.
Poor.x. -Wind N., gentle breeze-overcast.
lIOLTREAD-Wind S.W., strong breeze-rain.
LIVERPOOL-Wind S., calm-rain.
LEEDS-Wind N.E., calm- foggy.
YORK Wind S.E., calm - overcast.
WiirrEn_tylex-Wind 5.8., gentle breeze - overcast.
DUNDEE-Wind N.W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy.

log each other at an interval of only two or three
hours' duration. In this manner the great EMPEROR
was enabled at the same time to conduct the labours
of the campaign against ALEXANDER, and to preside
over the acts of internal administration. In one di-
rection he acted upon the fortunes of war through
his ducal and sometimes royal lieutenants, in the
other he influenced the proceedings of Government
through his couriers and secretaries. The consequence
of all this was, that NAPOLEON was enabled to render
his energies in a manner übiquitous throughout Eu-
rope, extending eastwards as far as the advanced lines
of the invading army, and westwards to the extre-
mities of his gigantic dominions : in the north to
the suburbs Of Altona, and in the south
to the suburbs of Convento. His personal
policy was thereby continued as the motive
power, directing the civil and social, as well as
the aggressive and military affairs of his empire. This
state of things continued, indeed, up to the moment
when the elements, with the permission of DIVINE
PROVIDENCE, combined together far his destruction;
when, with a saddened heart, he gave the signal for
retreat—driven back not by the hand of man, not by
the sword cf the CZAR or by the lances of the Cos-
sacks, but by the flames,of Moscow, and by the hor-
rors of a Russian winter unexampled in its premature
and rigorous character. Throughout the history of
his extraordinary career it may be seen that he inva-
riably paid the most scrupulous attention to that first
of all the requirements of generalship, the main-
tenance of the line of communications. It has been
especially particularised by one of his most faithful
and intelligent officers, one who, after remaining with
him six years in his exile, at Longwood, and with
his nephew six years in his imprisonment at
Ham, happily still survives to recognise the gratitude
of the French nation to the memory of the EMPEROR
—it has been especially particularised, we say, by
General Mosmionozs, how NAPOLEON continued to
keep open his line of communications in every one of
his fourteen immortal campaigns. Caution was thus
rendered the basis of his operations, even of those
exploits of the most audacious character. And never
was this forethought more signally displayed than in
the arrangements preceding and accompanying his
famous Russian expedition. Inspired by this pre-
cautionary sentiment of regard for the maintenance of
his line of communications, NAPOLEON managed, as
we have already intimated, to receive at regular inter-
vals every day's post from his capital. Like GOLD-
SMITLI'S " Traveller," he continued, in all his wander-
ings into the remotest provinces of Russia, to
" Drag at each remove a lengthening chain!"
This intimate union between the imperial head-
quarters and the imperial metropolis of NAPOLEON
was brought about by a very simple and comprehen-
sible device, a device by which the distance interven •
ing between the two was effectually annihilated as far
as the conduct of the affairs of Government was con-
cerned. As the main army of invaders advanced
farther and farther into Russia, military posts were
established at fixed intervals and in convenient
localities, soldiers being left behind at each spot with
provisions and all other means and appliances where-
with to live in their new and temporary abodes—these
military posts being employed as resting places for the
couriers, affording them protection, nourishment, and
relays of horses. What completes the marvel of this
singular narrative, and testifies to the accuracy ,of
NAPOLEON'S forethought, is the fact, the astonishing
and unquestionable fact, that up to the time
when Moscow was consumed by the confla-
gration not one of the couriers dispatched
from NAPOLEON to Paris, or from Paris to NAPOLEON,
had miscarried, not one had failed in arriving at the
appointed hour with his dispatches. All this vas
accomplished, be it remembered, not among the
citron-groves or the olive-gardens of a southern 6i-
mate, but among the woods and morasses of Lithu-
ania, in the brown and sterile wilderness of that
Russia whose soil is leas frequently clothed with
greenness of even an evanescent verdure than
whitened with the frost of an almost-uninterrupted
winter.

From what we have here remarked it must be evi-
dent that we would witness the adoption of some such
a course as that pursued by NAPOLEON in his Rus-
sian campaign, if we would guard against the destruc-
tion too often threatening our navigators in the
conduct of our Arctic expeditions. By following
in some measure the northern coast of the
American continent, and by establishing at
specified distances pests for the maintenance
of communications, there would scarcely remain a
possibility for any such prolonged isolation as that
which has befallen Sir JOHN FRANKLIN and his com-
panions. True, that the expenses of such an expedi-
tion of discovery would be thereby increased, but at
the same time its dangers would also be thereby di-
minished. A sense of security would follow our
heroic mariners into their Arctic solitudes, sustaining
them in the midst of the most severe and protracted
tribulations. Our suggestion is comprised in these
few sentences, and we would here leave it to be di-
gested by other judgments, and to be conned over in
matiarer consideration.

It is not often that we find either instruction or
profit from the bucolic gatherings 'yclept " Farmers'
Clubs." The eloquence on such occasions is
generally of an uniform description—a strik-
ing similarity may be observed in all the
speeches. If of a sufficiently gloomy and
sombre character, they will be cheered to the
echo—if the ambitious orator declares that the
sun of England's glory set with the repeal of the
corn-laws, that nothing can save the country from
bankruptcy and ruin but the restoration of protective
enactments, or (following the new and more artful
dodge) the imposition of import duties not for the
purposes of protection (oh, no, no such thing would
be accepted !!) but of revenue—if he succeed in mak-
ing the flesh creep and the hairs stand on end on the
heads of his auditors, he will be greeted with rap-
turous and enthusiastic bursts cf applause, and re-
garded as a fitting candidate on the first vacancy in the
representation of the county. It is almost impossible
to conceive the satisfaction with which certain persons
receive the intelligence of the wrongs and injuries to
which they have been subjected. Convince a man
that he is oppressed and ill-treated, that the losses he
has sustained may be ascribed not to his own acts of
omission or commission, not to his own negligence or
apathy, but to causes over which he had no control,
and you are sure of an attentive and sympathising
listener. His appetite may not be impaired he may
still make a huge hole in the sirloin, and quaff
bumpers pottle-deep from the foaming tankard, hut
he will mingle lamentations for his fallen condition
with the enjoyment of these creature comforbe. He
will utter touching Jeremiads while proving himself
to be an unequalled consumer. He will

" Eat and sigh—
Eat and sigh—
Eat and sigh—and Gat again."

'We remember to have heard of an exceedingly elo-
quent and popular barrister who, when stating the
case of an injured client, was astonished at the effect
produced on one of the audience; deep sobs burst
from his heaving bosom ; heartrending groans filled
up every pause, until at length, e'er the conclusion of
the oration, he sank into his seat overwhelmed with
the intensity of his emotions. The mystery was,
however,
he
solved. At the conclusion of the
trial,
cpmadnof feeling " rushed up to the talented
t er, speedily
advocate, and introducing himself as his client, cried,
with startling emphasi3, " Sir, you have not
said a single. word that is not the naked truth,
but, by -I I never knew before that I
was half so ill-used." So it is with the agri-
culturists. They listen with delight to the
glowing pictures of their misery and sufferings,
while gorged to repletion, they look forward without
dismay to the prospect of speedy destitution, and laud
to the skies the orator who persuades them that they
are a thousand times worse used than they had ever
been previously.
But there are exceptions to every general rule, and
f we are happy to notice the tone and character of the
proceedings at the Burton-on-Trent Farmers' Club,
at the Queen's Hotel, on Thursday. There was no
unmanly whining, no pulrile lamentations over the
defunct monopoly. The excellent chairman, Mr.
GISEORI62, who within as well as without the walls of
consistent
Parliament has ever been the
every
faithfulvery jaunsdt
and
alcauses
andthe
friend of liberal institutions, of
salu-
tary reform, theirdircet,;ndidtlonofagriculture,
attention
to th
e re
io,to.itnht to which
es
depressed
c
they should direct their exertions in
order to obtain legislative relief, and that in a manner

which cannot be objectionable or injurious to any class of
their fellow-citizens, which would afford real protec•
tion to every description of British industry. The
Hen. Gentleman said "that he had begun to farm in
the palmy days of agriculture, and had received
208. a bushel for his wheat, and sold mutton for
lid. per pound. He remembered haggling for, and
rather reproaching himself, with reference to the
last-mentioned price, for not insisting on the other
penny." Was this during the days of corn-laws or
protective imposts ? No, indeed ! No such prices
were obtained since that iniquitous code came into
operation. The period is, however, identified by the li
statement that " shortly afterwards the Bill was
passed restoring the currency standard, and instead of
paying 145., 20e. worth had to be paid for the 1/. note."
The real effects of this impolitic and inequit-
able measure were clearly and distinctly explained
by Mr. GISEOUICE. He said, "they would
see what a blow this was to every debtor
in the kingdom. The landed interest always
was, and always must be, the.debtor interest, as land
was the foundation of all security. They all knew
the tenacity with which the people clung to the land
in this country, and the extent to which they charged
it with incumbrances in preference to selling it.
Every man who charged his estate with 11. notes, worth
14s. at the time, had to pay 20s. worth of gold for
them, and he would ask whether this was not a heavy
blow to agriculture?" The Hon. Gentleman truly added,
"never had there been so odious a thing done as took
place in 1819, with reference to the public debt. In
1814 as much gold as was contained in 500,000,000
of sovereigns would have paid it. And yet in
1819 the Legislature declared that it could not
be paid off with less gold than was contained in
800,000,000 of sovereigns. This made the burdens
of peace heavier than those of war, and he had no
hesitation in saying that the burdens imposed on the
agriculture of England during a long period of peace
were heavier than during the war." This is indeed
the truth. Its accuracy is unquestionable. It can-
not be controverted or denied. W hat then is the remedy?
Palpably the re-enactment of the monetary code,
under which all classes, notwithstanding the heavy
war expenditure, enjoyed such real prosperity. The
sentiments enunciated by Mr. GISBORNE elicited una-
nimous approbation; but we must remember that it
was in Derbyshire, the county which has been en-
lightened by the teaching of the Rev. JOHN TWELLS,
who has shown to the farmers in his vicinity the true
nature of the evils under which they are suffering,
the grievances by which they are oppressed.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
Notwithstanding the boast in the PRESIDENT'S
Message, of the great reduction that bad been effected
in the army, and the promise that still further reduc-
tions should be made in the military forces, we find,
in the oniteur of yesterday, a decree for adding
40,000 men to the army, by calling out the remainder
of the levy for 1849. The decree is preceded by the
follov.ing report of the Minister of War:—
" Monsieur le President,—ln presence of the political
events which agitate Germany, and although the Go-
vert merit is firmly decided, as is stated in your message,
to °beet ve the strictest neutrality so.long as the interest
of
.France and the equilibrium of Europe should not be
compromised, it would b© a measure of, precaution to
esserable in the territorial, divisions of the north and the
east a number of troops, sufficient to provide against all
eventualities.

" I btve the honour to submit to your approbation a
project of a decree, which will cAll into active service
40,000 of the 78,500 young soldiers still disposable of
the contingent of the class of 1849.
These young soldiers will be principally attached to
the regiments of infantry placed in the above-mentioned
divisions, to raise their Effective strength to 2,500 men,
and as according as may be required to the other corps of
the same branch of the service.

" As to the cavalry, its effective being in general suf-
ficient, and particularly in the northern and eastern diei•
sions, where the number of the reguuents is considerable
enough, it will only receive but a very small proportion
of the men now called out.

"The expenses resulting from this inresse of the
effective force will give rise to a Bill which will be soon
submitted to your approbation and presented to the Na-
tional Assembly.
" Accept, Monsieur le President, the assurance of my
profound respect."..

The object of this sudden increase in the military
force is thus explained in the Constitutionnel :-
1* Up to the present the struggle lay especially be-
tween the Sovereigns, the people being no more than
spectators. Circumstances have changed this state of
things by setting fire in all directions to national pride,
by awakening patriotic susceptibilities, and by causing
popular passions to enter into the disagreements of
crowned heads. In a word, all Germany is in arms; it
becomes, therefore, nvessary that France should com-
plete her military effective. The Government has pro-
claimed in the Message the neutrality of France so long
as French interests should not be compromised; bat it is
necessary to be in a position, under all circumstances, to
make this neutrality be respected. Such is the object of
the calling out of a part of the class of 1849."
The Constitutionnel of Saturday contains a ferocious
attack on M".- DUVERGIER DE HAUILANNE, hitherto
one of the great idols of the party of order, and who,
through good report and through evil report, has been
the fidus Achates of M. TRIERS ; together they car-
ried on an opposition to M. GUIZOT, together they
organized the reform banquets, and together they
coalesced with the parti-pretre to betray the Re-
public ; this attack therefore upon M. DAYERGIER in
the Bonapartist organ would seem to announce a split
between M. Tniuxs and the Elya6e._ _ _ _

The report of the Committee-on the affairs of M.
YON has been delayed for eight days, in order to
afford M. BAROCHE an opportunity of consulting
with M. DIIPIN on the subject ; the victory in this
case will most probably remain with the Elysee. The
National has the following observations on this sub-
jeot:—

"Is M. Yon to be reinstated or dismissed? A grand
question; for it is as if some one were to say—will the
Permanent committee and the bureau of the Legislative
Assembly allow themselves to be mocked by M. Carlier?
M. Carlier punishes M. Yon for having taken on him-
self to warn M. Dupin that certain persons wanted to
assassinate him. For, the Prefect of Police maintains
thatlno one intended assassinating M. Dupin, and that
in any case he ought to be informed of it only with
the combat of the Prefect. The bureau met on
Thursday to deliberate on this great matter, but already
opinions were divided; the pure Parliamentiaas had lust
nothing of their animosity, but the Bonapartists were
looking up, and began to say that a conflict was near;
that it M. Yon was to be paid, M. Carlier would be of-
fended; that, if he were offended, the President of the
Republic would be displeased, and the country endan-
gered. The bureau determined to send a deputation to
M. Baroche. The representative at the head of it, M. J.
do Lasteyrie, was vehement, but M. Baroche was indig-
nant, and the great reason of the conflict gave him an
irresistible elcquence. Yesterday the great Minister ap-
peared before the Committee of Parliamentary Initiative,
and chaunted the same air in a milder tone. M. Yen is
not to lose his salary, for the Municipal Committee has
voted it. It is true that M. Curlier has suspended its
payment, but that is a miserable matter to occupy the
attention of a great Assembly. Besides, has the Legis-
lative Assembly the right to pay with its own funds a
commissary of police? M. Baroche requires, in order
to be sure of it, to read over again the Constitution, and
be asks a week to do so. That time was granted, and
the salary of M. Yon hangs on a thread. The members
of the committee had to employ all their eloquence in
causing their colleauges of the Assembly to swallow the
weck. They have acted like M. liar oche; they have
flung themselves into a conflict. A conflict! That is a
word which says more than might be imagined. It says
all that M. Baroche may think fit. That conflict, if M,
Baroche desires, will give us at least a prolongafdon of
powers.—P.S. It is stated that MM. LeflO, Baz and
De Pane, terrified at the idea of leading to a conflict be-
tween M. CarliAr and the Legislative Assembly, are oa
the point of withdrawing their proposition."
The Minister of Finance presented to the Assem-
bly on Saturday a project of law for the purchase by
the State of the shares in the different canal companies.
Oa Friday, the Committee of the Department of
the Seine, appointed by the French Government to
determine on the admission or rejection of olsjects
presented for the purpose of being sent to the Great
London Exhibition of 1851, by the manufacturers and
tradesmen of Paris, held a meeting at the Hotel de
Ville. The Prefect of the Seine presided. The
meeting having been constituted, M. HERICART DE
11 ..011TRON
TLIVRT was elected Vice-President, and 111.
its secretary. It then proceeded to regulate the
order of its labours, after which it adjourned to the
19th of the present month, when it will commence
the examination of the articles destined for the Ex-
hition. The committee consists of 25 members.
There were a considerable number of Bourse
speculators assembled in bhe Passage de l'Opera to-
day. The Five per Cents. were done as high as 93f.
15c., and closed at 931.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 16.
Boulogne and Amiens, 77s —Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 14%—East Indian, 9A—Northern of France,
W—Paris and Rouen, 24.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 12th have arrived.

In the Siliate, the debate on the Address, in an-
swer t.) the Speech from the Throne, had commenced,
and Senor INFANTE had demanded explanations as to
the marriage of the Count DE MONTEMOLIN with the
sister of the King of NAPLES, and had strongly re-
commended that Spain should cultivate an alliance
with England.
MADRID BOMA, Nov. 12.—Three per Cents., 35 ;

Five per Cents., 13. Exchange on London. 50 35
to 40.

GERMANY.

Advices from Berlin of the 15th are of a pacific
character. The reply of Austria to the Prussian pro-
positions has been received, and is favourable.

The Court of Vienna concedes to the Prussian
Cabinet the non-recognition de jure of the old Con-
federation, but still the Frankfort Diet is to be the
organ of that body de facto.
The Prussian troops are allowed to occupy part of
Hesse. Nevertheless a Federal army will proceed to
the pacification of Hesse as well as of Holstein.

In the course of this intervention the Prussian
troops will be allowed to remain on the Etsppe roads.
Orders have been dispatched to stop the advance of
the Federal troops in Hesse, so as to prevent a
collision.

The New Gazette of Prussia contains the follow-
ing :
_ _ _

"We are credibly informed from Vienna that the
Austrian Government will declare that it is prepared to
stop its armaments, and to limit itself to those already
made, if Prussia will pursue a similar course."

The Cologne Gazette exhibits great‘ displeasure at
the withdrawal of the Prussian troops from Hesse
Cassel. The following is an extract on the subject
from that journal :
" The order of M. de Manteuffel to evacuate Electoral
Hesse came like a clap of thunder on the Prussian troops
of Frankfort, as well as on the public generally. The
comedy played by the Ministry is evident—magnilo-
quent phrases, a call to arms of the whole country, then
retreat—then submission. This is too much. Prince
Gortschakoff assumed an attitude hero as if the Holy
Alliance of Berlin, Vienna, and St. Petersburgh was in
existence, and the differences between Prussia and
Austria were all settled. We believe that the policy of
M. de Manteuffel—that of peace at any price—will be the
Prussian -constitution. The evacuation of Electoral
Hesse is a 'dangerous symptom."
The Berlin correspondent of the Journal des Debats
thus describes the effect produced in that city by the
yielding of the King of PRUSSIA :
" The news of tho acceptance by the King of the pro-
positions of Austria has produced here a profound and
very painful impression, and never, even in 1847 and
1848, have we seen Berlin in such en excessive state of
excitement as it is at present. The Bourse, however, is
very firm; the realization of profits has alone checked
the upward movement of the funds. Speculators believe,
then, in the maintenance of peace, notwithstanding the
formidable armaments which continue to be made
throughouut Germany. The Saxon army has been put
on a war footing, and dispatches from Munich an-
nounce the mobilisation of the reserves of the land-
wehr,

The Prince of PRUSSIA is expected at Frankfort.
It is said he will take the command of the army in the
vvesternprovincep. _ _ _

The National Gazette of Berlin of the 12th says—
" The order given to M. DE EADOWITZ to proceed to
England for the purpose of examining the military
system existing there, and in particular that cf the
artillery, has been interpreted in the sense of peace.
On one side is seen aconcession made to Russia and
Austria, and, on the other, the machination of a party
dreading the influence of a man who does not share in
its absolutist ideas. The audience granted to M. DE
PROKESH on Sunday by the KING appears to have
terminated in the sense of his party. Prussia will
leave the Germanic Diet free to act in Electoral Hesse
and in the Duchies, for the purpose of obtaining free
conferences and the right of union within the limits
of Art, 9 of the federal party, but not the recognition
of the Union."

The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from Frank-
fort of the 13th which says:—" The entry of the Ba-
varian troops into Cassel was announced prematurely.
To-day all is doubtful. It was said at Han= that
the Prussians had evacuated Hersfeld. A Bavarian
battalion' left Ilanau to-day, taking the direction of
Fulda, which causes it to be supposed that they are
marching on Cassel."

The Frankfurter Journal contains a latter from
Hanau of the 13th, which states that the Court was
making preparations to return to Cassel. The same
journal states from Fulda that the federal troops had
remained there to the 12th. The next day a detach.
ment was to proceed from Ilunefeid to Bebra; in
three days they were to proceed to Cassel. General
GRCEBEN had addressed a letter of excuse to Prince DE
LA Tour: ET TAXIS relative to the collision which took
place near Brouzell.
It is said that 20,000 Russians have entered
Hungary. - • ' •
Advices have been received from Vienna of the
13th. Toe Aistrian army is, it is said, by no means
in such a forward state of preparation as had been re •
presented, and therefore Prince SCHWARZENBURGLI is
temporising. with Prussia to gain time. iIaYNAU
arrived at Vienna on the 11th. Councils of war are
held every day.-
The Prussian Staats Anzeiger of the 14th has the
following from Vienna of the 11th : _ _

" The actual strength of the corps d'arrnee, under the
command of General Wratiblaw, on the Bohemian-
Saxon frontier, is returned at 42,000 men.

" The numberin Moravia between Olmutz and Trop-
pau, is 58,000 men.
" All the fresh reinforcements go off to Moravia,
where it appears that Austria intends to concentrate its
chief forces. The borderers from Croatia, who arrived
a few days since, proceeded further with evident reluc-
tance. Nearly all the borderers aro married men.
The Hungarian war has thinned their ranks dreadfully,
and in many districts there are colonies of widows and
young children.
" Jellschich's proclamation met with a cold reception.
" There are divers reports in circulation here, but the
best informed mcn consider that war is inevitable.

" Mr. Appert, the great prison reformer, has received
a very satisfactory answer from the Minister of War,
in reply to his proposals for improving the condition of
the political prisoners at Kusstein. Mr. Appert set out
yesterday for Italy, to examine the state of the prisons
there."

The plan of operations againt Prus,ia, which has
been drawn up in the Military Chancellery of Austria
is, according to the statements of the Breslauer
Zeitung, based on strategical necessities, which are
equally obligatory to all generals, and its chief
features are consequently by no means likely to re-
main a secret. It appears that it is intended to
make an attack simultaneously on the Rhine, in
Saxony, and in Silesia. The federal army at Frank-
fort is to consist of Austrian, Bavarian, and
Wurtemberg troops under the command of the King
of WIIRTEMBERG, who holds the rank of an Austrian
Field-Marshal, and who will be instructed to occupy
Nassau and Electoral Hesse, and then to threaten
and eventually to occupy the Rhenish provinces and
Westphalia. This army will not exceed the strength
of 70,000 men, while the chief army in Bohemia will
muster 120,000 Austrian and Saxish troops: under
Marshal RADETZSKY, and will make a quick move upon
Magdeburg and Brandenburg, by which means they
would at once obtain possession of the Prussian
capital. For the purposes of this attack the king-
dom of Saxony is of the greatest importance.
While the chief army is thus advancing against
the Prussian capital, another army of 80,000
Austrians, under Count WAATISLAW and the Arch-
duke AniagEcuT, is to attack Silesia with the
greatest impetuosity, although still operating in con-
nexion with the chief army in Saxony, in such a
manner that while ynATlsraw's corps covered the
flank of RADETZKY s army, it ~vould at the same time
operate in the rear of that corps, and storm the
fortresses of the provinces of Silesia. Serious doubts
have, however, been expressed respecting the Ger-
man Federal troops, which are partly infected with
the liberal ideas of the time—a circumstance which
might possibly lead to the most disastrous
results. The plan of operation, which has
been drawn up by the Feldzeugmeister HESS, has
consequently been formed. with a view to the ra-
pidity of signal successes, by which Austria hopes to
dazzle and entice her vacillating confederates. The
Austrian generals, too, would prefer a winter cam-
paign to the delay until spring, for they rely on the
power of endurance of the Austrian troops, while they
believe that the Prussian Landwehr would suffer from
the privations and the severity of the season.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
A cannonale was heard along the whole of the
Rendsburg line on the 14th at Hamburgh, but the
result was not known when the last accounts left.

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