New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-15

- v;nds prevailed throughout the passage.
IT, screw steamship City Of Manchester, Capt.
x.nneov. from Liverpool July q, via Qaeecstown
J.ly %, also arrived on Saturday night.
tn. ,teamsoip North American lett Liverpool q, ii
O'Clock on the morn ng Of the 81 rst.' and paSseo
Father Point at O'Clock on Saturday morning
The news by these steamers has been anteipa'eao y
she City of Baltimore, which was oo"'ae' U" ""r'
Race by the news yacht.
THE LAST PHASE OF GERMAN POLL ilCs
THE PEACE IN GERMANY-APPREHEsDEp AUS
rRYaN FRENCH CoAIITION-THs BavARiAsPAR
,I.myxT. AND TIE QUESTION OF Cox
s1rrUTIONAL EMPIRE IN GERMANY.
MUNICH, July 81, 1859
Three week ago the tone of feeling in tho mid
Ala States of Germany was overbearing and AFRO
can't. It was supposed that they held the destiny
~ Purooe in their hands, and that they could use
th,ir mower in manner 10 relieve them Of The dan
e,r Of being eventually crushed between Prussia
and Austria Their statesmen held their heads
YER, high, and talked very big about forcing con-
.sss,ons from Austria in favor of her Protestant
,opul.,i"r. about forciro Prussia int ina war or
Il that cooblcoded Power should espeiately refuse
expo,e her, in some awiully indefinite MANNER -
The scorn and laughter Of the world. unfortunate
n far the schemes Of these blatant statesmen, the
zoe Of bic words and the age of big deeds seldom
.o,pcide in nation aud wb,le Germany was talk
ing ber.elf out of breath as 10 how aud when 1t
would be advisable to interfere in the struggle,
Louis Napoleon, by series of energetic actions,
brought his Imperial brother to terms; and both
then cobcurred in bowling out the wOuld-be med
1lery with a cool " mind your own business"
which is more CALLING to German pride aod more
fatal to German pretcDsions than dozen defeats
would be. 1t is amusing to see tho Frankfort
Statesmen dismount from their high horses, which
they have been driving so furiously, aud ride
quietly home on the very smallest of donkeys.
For the credi. of humanity, let us hope that their
ears are not so long as their faces.
The tuIh 10, throughout the whole affair, Ger
many, including Prussia, has Jagged full month |
behind the march Of events. Her statesmen are |
not gifted with the faculty of understanding times
and seasons. They never take time by the tore
lock An energetic and seas0nable protest on the |
part Of Germany, accompanied by prompt measures |
t. give 1t force against the designs OF Louis Nspo-
kop would have gone long way toward prevent
Ing the war; but she let the opportunity SIP AND
~ben il became manifest that the Austrans would
~ driven out of Itsly, that Hungary would be
H;,dled into revolution, unless France were
threatened upon the Rhine, even then precious
time was wasted IN frivolous squabbles about the
,0ht Of initiating measures Of defense in the Diet,
in settling which State should assume the chlei
command of the great army to DC organized, 10
airing mutual jealousirs, and IN kindred foies. 1t
,oon becaue evident that in spite OF the general
enthusiasm for war, the German States were no
more united than they had been when tbey fell an
eass prey to Napoleon the Great. Intelligent oo-
ae,yers d, reeve that the middle States hated Irus
ala only less intensely than they did Louis Napoleon,
aDo that their ~ mpatby with Austria was wholly sell
FISH They wAntsdtO help their neghoor. because IN
no doing they believed they would help themselves
But with that fatal facility of being too late which
Asa ALWAYS characterized the German race, they
never culne up 10 tune; got ready tn do any
thing They lacked not only great aud noble pur-
pose TO give unity and weight to their counsels, out
Q r-seeipe, energetic head 10 direct their I'M
b,moded but vague enthusiasm into prompt ana de-
cisive action.
l need not go far to find striking Illustration
of this last assertion. For more than month
10 600 soldiers were quartered IN Munich; and as
the news of Austrian reverses came pouring IN
upop us in an unbrvken stream, the people began
81 ak why these men were idhDg away their time
here, when they might be doing good service on
the Rhine or ia the Tyro, ard even the soldiers be-
asp Ia brow discobtented, and showed signs OF IN.
suboI dnatioo. The authorities became alarmed,
and the ore- demanded general order directing the
troops Ia be marches toward the Western frontier,
and TO hold themselves in readiness to be trans
ported to the Rhine, was published, and WAS re-
lived with universal acclanation But tht aews
Of The nsnce interviewed between the issue OF the
order and the day fixed for the march OF the tfooPs
and damped the public enthusiasm IN no small de-
gree. The only dignified way open to the Govern
nent was to cuauteTmaDd the order aud wait for
new Developments, for nothing could be more n
diculous in the eyes Of the world team for little
State Ike Bavaria TO assume evel ike attitude at
the very instant when the principals IN the hight
were coming 10 terms. The Government felt tue
dilemma without knowing how TO get out of it.
The order was not counterm,nded aud the troops
marched out without exhibiting or exciting par
tcle of enthusiasm. at is too late, sand the peo
pie. Had IT been only three weeks ago. " Too
late" mu..ered officers aud troops Too hte
How maby disastrous chapters of German history
are headed and explainee BY those words
Germany has fallen into Il state of feverish &C.
preston since the news Of the unexpected treaty
concluded between the two hostile Emperors fell
upon her astvnisbed ears. Her peace of miud was
30 much disturbed by the intelligence that sue be-
gins to y. ops the future with awful political night
mares, and half believes them TO b. prophetic WIS.,
tons. France 10 ~ share the continent with Aus
tia, cutting up Prussia and the Confederacy with
as little renorse as Prusss and her holy compeers
divided Poland in other days. The Kline is TO be-
come a French river; aud those who were lately 60
ioud and 30 fierce in asserting Austri,'s right to
.yrsnnize over Italy, now soucdee at the bare
tnousht OF coming under that same yoke them
W"es Sauce for the goose is sauce for the