, 1865-01-10

lawful wife of a German dragon. The
Chambers then allude with satisfaction
to the few years of improvement which
followed the grant of the constitution OF
1881, a happy glimpse Of prosperity to
which "a time of rctrogression" soon
succeeded, "until in the famine year of
1916 the impoverished fell into the bit
terest necessity" Nothing, they say, had
been done to avert it, the years 1840 and
1849 offered no opportunity OF recovery,
and 1850 brought Federal execution, for
eign troops, immense expenses, Sand deep,
painful wounds, to the cure Of which up
to the present moment not the slightest
steps have been taken, often and impress
sively as the Chambers have prayed for
their adoption.' They, moreover, elabo-
rately set forth the falling Oft IN the
schools, in trade and agriculture, and un-
hesitatingIy attribute these caIamltles to
the increasing refrigeration OF the right
of State supervision" Thus much the
Chambers feel bound to say, though their
moderation keeps Sin the background
many just and deeply felt complaints.
But it is their duty to represent that I'M
less a period of sturdy creation and re-
lCI iIdtIOu III VIC ICRloIuCIOH anu
t~ration is at once commenced inevitable
misfortunes must fall on Electoral Hesse."
And they conclude by earnestly e%ntreat-
ing hat ga ruler possessing the conSci-
ousneSs of his position and of his sacred
duties" will take "the necessary resolu-
%tious.'' AS we have already intimated,
the Elector does not exactly see it in that
light. The condition of the country is
not, he thinks, described with the requi-
site moderation. He is very much sur
prised 'to see the efficiency OF his 60
vernment misunderstood" If the con-
stitution has not been arranged, that is
the fault of the Chambers. All their
schemes are nothing, but attempts to
effect ga settlement at the expense of
the unassailable prer0gatlves OF his Grown
and a secure order of State life" Of
course this is very bad,-the prerogatlves
we should not care about so much, but
the secure order of State life, or, as the
Elector calls it elsewhere, ga regulated
Site ORDER" is clearly indispensable. One
is surprised that the Chambers do not see
it. The EIector therefore considers that
the course of the Chambers is clearly cut
out for them, and that as for ga period of
sturdy creation and reformation on his
part, eve are already conscious of ge-
neral faithful performance of our duty"
Meanwhile the Chambers are affection
ateIy warned. The Elector has proofs
in the address where the public discon-
tent they talk of has its origin, and he
has learnt from it Sin what to-some-ex-
tent-more-important direction a more ac-
tive display Of Governmental activity is
required"
So the matter stands. One laughs,
but the end of such mirth is heaviness.
Englishmen think co~ntemptuously of Hes
Sc. lis people used to let themselves be
sold as mercenaries by their rulers, and
we used to buy them. We have learnt
from Murray's handbook that the Bava-
rian buy-o-broom girls were all Hessians,
and the buy-a-broom girls were not esti-
mable characters. Constitutional crises
are all very fine in great countries, but
three-quarters of a million of people have
no business with such things. A Briton
watches such affairs with the sort ofcon-
temptuous admiration with which CULVER
looked down on the constitutional policy
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