Austria and Prussia have been attempting to persuade the other
members of the resuscitated Diet to concur in the establishment of - a general system of police for Germany, under the direct control of
the Diet. In so far as the operation of such a system would con- cern the people, the minor sovereigns had no objection to it; but their jealousy of encroadassents br the two-gyeat powers on their independence was strong enough to make thee reject tho scheme.
Efforts are still made to bring about a greeter harmony of ac- tion between Austen, and Prussia. The Queen of Prussia, who is understood to exercise, on the one hand, a powerful influence over the mind of her consort, and on the other, to be herself subject in an almost e9ual degree to the influence of the Archduchess Sophia, has had an interview with the Emperor; and a personal meeting of the Emperor and the King of Prussia is expected to follow. There is, however, an utter incompatibility between the aims of the two governments and the characters of the populations they rule, which even a more entire sympathy' between the King and the Emperor than is, from their very different characters, ever likely to exist, could not counteract. to Prussia, the proceedings in the elections to the Provincial Diets are not of good promise for the designs of the Court. At several places the electors have refused to act.
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