The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-06

cap the climax forced loan after having faiIed I,
producing anything worth mentioning from a voun-
tary one most satisfactory state the finances must
be in sure enough to render such ndispen-
/ sah!e
The bostilites against Denmark continue TO be car
ried in the same lukewarm and dilatory as
ever The interference Of Hngland aud Russia appears
to have raralyzed the energies Of both parties and
since the retreat Of General Wranges army from Jut-
land the operations have been confined to a series Of
marches and countermarches without meaning u re-
suit the war langushes and, " like wounded snake
drags its flow length along" II reports to be
dited that have been in orcuIron here the last
week, three months truce Ia about concluding tn DO
followed by peace, conditions which will leave the
whole affair in state quo, like the right of search
ut the treaty Of Ghent to be settled at future OPP
portuny The fact is that the question at issue
entirely upon what to be done at the demise Of the pre-
sent King of Denmark and his Majesty being now only
in the oreth year of his age it rkes ne ab
surd fox oe to be cutt each others throats about
the o. nscquenees Of so contingency. Yet this
is what thr Germans and Danes have been doing for
the hast three months, and it il really time to put
end tofo unreasonable squabhle. Prussia especially
after suapdering theremains Of an impoverished
spry mud undergoing vexatious md ruuous bloc kade
Of her ports, in quarrel in which she has earthly
entrspasn which she bee involved in more in
obedience to the dictates of popular camor than from
any motives of sou nd policy
we are Sui in the very midst of commercial crisis
or rather stagnaton that threatens to become
NAL and far exceeds those temporary pressures of the
money market common the u nited States. Even
during the panic Of 1887 when shin pastcrs the
order of he day and specie dollar ,ara aps not
inferior to black things did not anything
like desoate aspect they do here No bust
but such absolutely necessary to meet
the demands Of the present moment Speculation and
enterprise Of all kids utterly and finally extinct
Many of the more wealthy inhabitants of Berlin hav
ing left the town in consequence of the late revolution
and subsequent disturbances the rents in dis
trics have dropped nearly hafthe fashionable ho
tells that used to be hronged with strangers
English. Poles. and Russians nearly empty quite
number of the first merchants and Of
the city have failed have been obliged to contract
their and thousands Of citizens opera
tves, shopmen. &c, thrown out Of employment OF
late indeed there have been Signs of rally occa-
stoned principally by the restoration of vigorous go
vernment in France and the prospect Of peace with
Denmark the funds have risen and there is little
more activity on Change than heretofore but the
heavy clouds that obscure the political horizon of
Europe preclude all hope Of permanent amendment
The stock Of combusble matter is kept alive by the
prolonged warfare in Italy, and the republican move
neDt in the south Of German while the revolt of the
Scavonian provinces of Austria and the revolution in
Waachia will probably call forth the intervention of
Russia and precptate that collision that has long been
inevitable Coming events cast their shadows before
them" and it is this shadow that chills the public
mind and fills it with vague apprehensions and forbo-
dings of evil. A. b.