St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1862-03-27

provin e9cctHaie Enough. a new code Of
consikzst}onal Law promulgated by the gov
ernmaMk The manner in which this was
accon4 46<hed was sufficiently clever, ard
pro,st2bat MADAME Gcrir,,de was not
without daplomatIc ability Ia the time
Of the 1csinef Electors, Hessc had been
usawalletinGly The ally ofPrussia, TO which
Che cosz NJ drawn by geographical
roshit'es al,d 1l13 rsigning family BY bEnsd
alliances. t. gain irm support. Ma
dame now bc,hought herself of Offering
her influence to Austria. The bait was
accepted at Vienna, anl the imperial Gov
ernment opAnly declared itself tn, protcc-
tor o. Hcsse. As first move the Dict of
Frankfort, then and now the oLcJirnt tool
Of Austria. declared the Ucssian Constitu-
ton Of 1881 contrary to the Federal
laws and called upon the Elvctor to
frame new ''fuudamcntal law of the
State" No reasons We're given for this
absurd and unprecedented decree Of the
Diet, and, in fact, reasons were unncccs-
sary, when every one was acquainted with
the real origin of the enactment. The
E!ector, Of course. 1T once ob"ycd the or
der of the diet, but the whole of Ills subjects
Protested 20 a man against the arbitrary
Us, of power. Even the men who were
called upon to form sort Of mock repre-
seut.ti,sn under the new code. opposed the
electoral dcspotis,u On every occasion, and
Chamber after Chamber having been DIS
solved, the country at last got into IA state
of chronic i'll direction, mani, stc1, how
ever, merely by passive resistance to the
Government. Ii is OILY within the last
f W weeks that the opposition has passed
the bounds Of passivcucSs, and risen into
the active state. The brave Hc>s;ans,
C NJ once more Ion :hc English PATTERN
resolved to pay no taxes which had not
hcen voted by their legal Representatives
in parliament assembled.
The wrttchcl cl>ctor. lcspotism, eve
body feels, cannot endure much longer.
This they know at Vienna as we'll us at
Berlin. Morganatic Madame Gertrude is
near upon seventy, and though her nine
electoral bans mag get the scrip aud the
diamonds, they will rot obtain any
snare of political rights. The heirs Ia the
throne is a Certain land graf Frederic OF
Hess. married, i'll first nnptia!s. to a Sis
ter of Car Alexander, and i'll i second
union, still existing, to i daughter of
Priucc Charl of Prussia This Ian graf
Frederic has likewise some claius upon.
the crown of Denmark, and his accession
to the electorate Is therefore, rather doubt
full Moreover, Prussia Possesses an an
ccu, title t. Ilcssc, in form OF a family p.c',
called All c'JrerJr"c'er""g or "hcrtagc
alliancr,' made in 1851, and renewed
in l6l4. Consequently. Prussia takes Il
great Interest in licssc, and for very COOL
reasons. But Au>tria, too. has an inter
est Madame Gertrude and the Elcctor,
as alre dy mentioned. have put themselves
under the ctp cial protection of the Cabi-
net Of Vienna aud the de t;,cto intcrcs,
thus created has been cvinccd already
once, in 1852, BY the occupation Of Hes
SC by Austrian troops At prcscn. the
Austrian troops are whispered Of again. as
having been solicited by his Electoral
iiighness to assist in breaking open the
money chests of bis loving subjects The
game, as will be seen, is getting desperate,
aud there vii! be no time to luse
All sign. Of coming things tell that the
hour for the battle is drawing nigh. The
cry f,r unity is loud in Germany. eve"
mole vchrmcn, than the cry Of liberty:
and few ioubl that to achieve the f,rnrr
either Austria or Prussia must be sub,lucd,
20 as t. leave the decided guidance of til"
nation to one state. Prussia is the
Piedmont nf Germany. aud the votes of
all the Liberals in the country arc in her
favor. The only doubt is whether King
William |. can become Victor Emman-
uel, aud Count Bcrustortf Cavour