New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-02
PROPOsR CHANGES IN TlE MAP
OR EUROPE.

| OF EUROPE.
| There are rumors ahoat that tho Governments
of Austria and Prussia are meditating a startling
coup detat. The plan, which is said to proceed
from Herr Won Bismarck, and TO have been &C.
cepted by Austria, aims at nothing less than
the annexation of all Northern Germany 70
Prussia, and of all Southern Germany to Aus.
tria The chief details of the arrangement are
as follows.
The King of Prussia Is 20 assume the title o.
Emperor of North Germany" and the Emperor
Of Austria TO declare himself Emperor Of South
Germany.
Northern Germany embraces. besides the
present territory Of Prussia, the Kingdoms OF
Saxony and Hanover, the Grand Duchies and
Duch;es OF Mecklenburg. Odenburg, Schleswig'
Hostein. Brunswick. Nassau, SAKE Weimsr,
SAKE Coburg. SAKE Meiningen SAKE Altenburg,
and the other smaller States Of Northern Ger
many.
Southern Germany would embrace, besides
Austria, the Kingdoms of Bavaria and wurtem-
berg, and the Grand DuGhies Of Baden and
IIesse Dar,nstadt.
The two Emporors arc to reside part OF the
wear In Frankfort, aud TO have j0lnt Ministry,
while dngle Parliament, representing all Ger
many. Ia a. assemble in the same city The
Emperors will retain their present residences
Al soon as the direct male line OF the one ilpcrs
housc becomes extinct. the head OF the other
house II 10 be the sole Emperor Of all Germany
The consent Of France 70 this plan il said u
have been purchased by promising to her the
cession of all the land west of the Rhine: Italy
il to receive vcnela, and Russia tho Polish dis.
tricts Of Austria aud Prussia.
Whether Mr. BismsTk haa really made this or
similar proposition to he Government Of Aus
tris ia not positively Known; but the past policy
Of Prussia indicates with high degree of prob
ability, to what extent the plan might emAnatc
from Prussia Bismarks himself in the diplo-
mn,ic notes called forth by the Congress OF
German Princes. at Frankfort, in 1853,
foreshadows II. In these notcs he insisted
tina, Prussia should DO in no way subor-
dipate 10 Austria As To the minor Pow.
ers. be clearly intimated that in his opinion il
would lie better If they leaned on one OF tho
great Powers. than 10 be allowed 70 take part
in the formation Of central Executive for all
Germany. Against the Austrian proposal. to
form a National Assembly, consisting Of dele
gates from the Diets Of the several States, Bis-
mark insisted on its direct election by the Ger
man people. All these points, it viii be seem
re-appear in the pan which ID now ascribed
to Mr.. Bismsrk.
Another feature Of the plan. If truc, would be
creditabe TO the sagacity Of that minister We
META and the purely Polish districts ere to Aus.
trim and Prussia, source especially to the former
Power, of constant weakness, and, in case Of u
general European war. cause of very sc..ous
danger. To release them for The annexation OF
purely German districts, which arc of the same
nationality with tho people Of the two Great
Powers, must commend itself "a very desifs-
Bile exchange.
Thus far. We SEQ nothing in this plan which
Mr.. Bismark may not have prevailed upon the
King of Prussia to propose to Austria. Il IL not
20 easy to believe that the latter power win
consent to it, Nothing could DO more humiliGt-
ing to Ler, than to abandon her own idea Of
a reconstruction Of Germany a. failure. and
TO adopt before tho eyes Of tho whole world The
adventurous scheme of her hated rival. Still,
setting aside the point of honor. il must appear 10
Austrian statesmen. that the Prassisn plan would
undoubtedly in the end prove more advantageous
than their own. They cannot leave out of sight
that Venetia and the Polish par: of Gallicia may
be lost in the same way in which Lom6ardy was
lost. All the other races Austria may hope to
retain, and. perhaps, gradually absorb into the
German nationality. for none of them has the
same strength and resources as the Italian and
Polish races. And she may tho more confidently
indulge this hope. II the number of her German
population should be increased by about seven
millions. MI. .,
II We assume that Austria may be prevailed
upon To adopt the Prussian plan. tho next ques-
tion il. how would 1t be received by the minor
governments and BY the German pcople' Aus
tria aud Prussia would, of course. first try nego-
tiations, and it b probable, moreover, that they
would leave to the governments Of the minor
states a part of their former sovereignty, rather
subordinsiing than annexing thom. But, even
in this shane. The sgcject cannot tsil 10 NEE.