New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-02
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
,-n..,a and Germany Inevitable
FF'ss French Matters.

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GrYr1EMEr: The position of European affairs
h,s taken turn within few days past which
demands our whole attention. Matters which
were silently preparing, and which on the surface
presented only very secondary interest nav
come to crisis. The enigma OF the state OF tn'h5S
IN Germany begins to be solved, and IN me- ior
the first time since l848, England IS subject to
very serious agitation precisely on the point on
which the national mind is most susceptible /
mean Religion.
Iayoided touching these various questions the
,sst week, not then compromising IN the affairs
of England what comprehend a little betternow,
and The mast was too uncertain for the kind OF
correspondence which ! have to send you In
collation. 10 Prussia, there have been some events
II great significance. thought when | last
wrote YOU that Prussia was about to succumo
once more, and in spite of my perception OF the
difficulties Of her position l did not more than
half express my disappointment am 50 fully
convinced that the best side of German ciyiliza
zion ia with Prussia, ! an so sure that this nation
hos an important task to accomplish in the history
ot humanity in general and Of the German race
in particular, that could not but hesitate 10 tell
Won that all was lost in that quarter NOW, II
P,pssia had passed without striking blow, or,
if this is vet not impossible 1t this time passes
without striking blow, under the Caudine Forks
Of Austria or rather of the old European coalition
OF 1918, in which the nephew Of Napoleon would
have taken the part of the Bourbons of the elder
branch we might say that it was all over with
sbis nation.
Not to resolve by war the difficulties which
could be resolved in no other way for a military
nation than by force OF arms would for Prussia be
aouiyaent to a suicide Whether they crush 1t
or not the two elements of the Germanic Conted'
Grafton are inevitably involved in war, OF longer
or shorter duration. The first skirmish has taken
place The Prussians yielded without the loss OF
man, and have since evacuated Cassel, But this
is evidently strategic movement.
Two facts of great gravity control this position,
the death OF the Count OF Brandeburg on the one
hand and the other, the placing the whole
Prussian army on the footing OF war. The Count
of Brandcburg, the natural son OF one Of the Primo
es of the Prussian dynasty, and adopted as mem
Der Of the Royal Family, had been from the rst
drawing back Of Frederick w llam, the prime
mover and agent OF the policy OF compromise anu
6elay | say the policy OF compromise aud deay,
for the Count of Bradeburg more than other per-
sons connected by the ties oil interest or affection
with the Count OF Berlin, was not and could not
be stranger to the plans Tor ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
which exist in the heart and head OF all Russians
He did not think the time come. He espe
cially distrusted the alliance with revolutionary
passions In short, he counted more on diplomacy
than on war. His DEATH which took place on ms
return from the Congress of Warsaw, and eVl-
IDENTITY caused by mental agitation, by his deceP-
ton and his fears was one OF those events which
never fail TO happen during great Crisis. me
men who represent q certain policy when this
Dolicv comes to a dead stop, and they are unable to
spen new faith, both crush themselves anu arc
crushed by Providence. Immediately alter the
death of Brandenburg, the same measure winch led
10 the retreat of the Count Of Radowltz was
adopted. general levy of the htnd'0her was
ordered and Prussia placed on the footing OF war.
The greatest enthusiasm pervades this army
la the midst of all the intammabie matter with
which Germany is covered, the decisions of dlplo-
macy have only very secondary plea conhlcl
is inevitable. viii this conflict bring on genera
European war I This, in my opinion, Is the onl!
uuestion which now remain doubtful
! think that there has been talk OF the nte
h. vention of England France and Russia to arroS
#A this conflict. But, on the one hand, DO not bt
s$# iieve that England has good understanding VIII
~ the other powers, and on the other hand, the i'm
possibility of remaining in SiQfn que is too evi
dent for the three powers IN question to nope io
a pure and simple return to the state OF things
under the old Germanic Considerations Pruss Ia
has emerged from it she has been if | may SO
say, squeezed out OF by the pressure OF events
she can only be brought back by force, and before
Welding to force she will sacrifice her last man
her last dollar, and the last drop OF her blood
efaced from history. There when
even the parties which are destined to become
arbiters permit the parties in Conlictto make use
of their own powers | accordingly believe that
the two ancient elements OF the Germanc Con
federation are destined to meet in a serious
struggle Europe will take part in this conflict
as she took part in the conflict between HOLLAND
and Belgium in 1890 and 1881. The Intervention
will be little later and will have for its effect tt
ratify decomposition of the ancient Germanil
ConfpderatiOn This affairs Will
broader shape and this is all Prussia will ylelt
on the side of Holstein. This question even vii
be soon settled The most difficult problem vii
be the decomposition OF Central Europe, But II
is inevitable,
AS soon as q peace with Denmark shall be per
fectly established the English diplomatists have
too much good sense not to prefer grand Consti-
sutonal State IN Germany as their ally against
the encroaching tendencies of Russia to thing
which lrepeat 1t, is completely impossible, name
W. the return of Prussia and OF all Germany, now
free or greedy for emancipation, 10 the barrow OF
the Austrian Slavonic alliance. Every thing in
this world has its time, and il there is any thing
now done with il is that part OF the treaties of Vi
emma against which Prussia has protested from
the beginning, and which it has thought only oil
destroying on the first opportunity. Prussia has
always deemed herself unjustly treated IN the
Congress OF Vienna and we need emily cast an eve
ON the programme to that HesSe is precisely
the move which the diplomacy had peridiously
prepared to create a weak point IN the long chain
which stretched from Konigsberg to Cologne.
Prussia will not stand stillto becut in two.
The Message of Napoleon seems like farewell
10 his Imperial pretensons He keeps up good
heart against fortune and leaves to the Assem-
bly, the responsibility of revising the Consttu
tion, and the manner in which it should be revised
The position of affairs is neither more clear nol
more open than it has been The two powers con
spire against each other, and both against the Re
public But they both make use in their turn, o
the Republic to block each other, and ii this game
continues it is evident that the Republic will have
the worst hand.
Is there anything serious at the bottom OF the