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FBA:sem—The breach between the Legitimists and Orleanists now ap- pears complete. 'fhe latest article on the question in the Journal des Debats, declaring that the "illusions" are now quite dissipated, has drawn from the Legitimist journals a chorus of savage execrations. The bill for adjourning the elections of the National Guard was opposed with much animation by the Mountain, and by the Republicans of Order. M. Jules Fevre, M. Lamartine, and General Cavaignac, spoke against it ; and so did General Lamonciere; the Minister of the Interior stood neutral. Finally, the bill was passed by 418 to 239. The Go- vernment has proposed a bill which assails the great agricultu- ral and manufacturing interest of the beet-root sugar-makers, by proposing to reduce the import-duties on foreign sugar from 45 francs to 25 francs, in progressive diminutions for four years • with other changes in favour of the purchaser. The Assembly resolved, on Wednesday, "almost unanimously," to pass the second reading. Paris is threatened with a religious polemic. The pious M. Sibour, Archbishop of Paris, lately issued a pastoral to his clergy, enjoining them to eschew every sort of political interference ; to concern themselves only with religion, and to support existing institutions, even those the result of revolution. The Bishop of Chartres has attacked this pastora], with extreme Legitimist indignation ; denounced it as a giving over of nations to anarchy ; and im- pugned it as of heretical tendency. The Archbishop of Paris calmly re- fers the matter to the Provincial Council of Paris.
Gnessesns—The German question again becomes practically interest- ing. From articles in the Paris Journal des _Mats, which trace with some appearance of official authorization the progress of diplomacy at Dresden and at the Prussian and Austrian capitals, it would seem that the minor German states are offering an effective opposition to the exclu- sive and retrograde plans of Austria ; that the accord between Prussia and Austria is removed ; and that the policy of M. Radowitz at Berlin is resuming the ascendant.
It will be recollected that the First Committee of the Diplomatic As- sembly at Dresden, to which were referred the question of the form of the Executive and the demand of Austria for the admission of her non- Germanic provinces into the Confederation, were reported on in a sense favourable to the Austrian plan and demand. The protest of France and the objection of Great Britain then received little attention. The Second Committee, charged with the duty of considering the policy which should regulate the Executive, have since come to resolutions no less interesting to foreign constitutional states. They have reported in favour of five propositions, to this united effect—
Each state shall abrogate all clauses in its constitution "incompatible with the Federal Constitution or with the Monarchical principle" : if the Sovereign and States of a country differ on these points of incompatibility, the Confederation is to arbitrate, with a power to modify constitutions by legislation : "no Sovereign Prince can be controlled [by the law, or the judges interpreting the law] in the accomplishment of his duties, or the exe- cution of the conventions resulting from the Federal Constitution " : "any general refusal to vote taxes on the part of a State will be regarded as an act of resistance of the subjects against the Government," and will be put down by the force of the Federal Executive.
But the same Committee which framed these resolutions, tending to restrict, almost to annihilate, the separate constitutional powers of the individual German States, was instructed to report on that letter of the Bing of Wnrtemburg in which he "rallied back to the principle which he swore and foreswore and now swears again," of a German Parliament. This letter is said to have made a deep impression on the cabinets of all the secondary States— securing the warm adhesion of Hanover, Bavaria, and Saxony, and to have had much effect on the King of Prussia him-
self. In an able report drawn up by Baron Beust, formerly Saxon Min- ister to England, the Commission has reported in favour of the proposal_ Immediately after the adjournment of the full sittings of the Conferences which lately took place, Baron Manteuffel and Prince Schwarzenberg had an interview, at which it is said they came to agreement on the or- ganization of the Central Power, and respecting the "exercise of the pre- sidency of that power."
But on the return of M. Manteuffel to Berlin, "he found," says the Jour- nal des Davis, that "affairs had taken quite a different aspect from that in which he left them "—" his adversaries had not been idle at Berlin." "The absence of M. de Manteuffel had been taken advantage of to bring to bear all the circumstances of a nature to alarm the susceptibility of Frederick William, and arouse his ambition and his antipathies. The occasion was favourable. Austria, satisfied with her successes at Warsaw, and reassured by the Olmiitz stipulations, had disbanded a portion of her army, and re- duced her military establishment. The small states, ancient and faithful allies of Prussia, were but too glad to reject at Dresden the Austrian propo- sitions, and to refuse their consent to plans, without which consent nothing could be done. Europe was beginning to be alarmed at the pretensions of that power. England and France, who first demanded explanations, were on the point of showing opposition, and would not delay in protesting. As Austria, notwithstanding all this, persisted in demanding the admission of all her Selavonian and Italian provinces, it was clear she had a powerful in- terest in doing so. Why should Prussia settle everything for the benefit of her rival without consulting her own interests? Why relinquish such great advantages without a compensation ? Persons who are considered to be well informed as to the true intentions of the King of Prussia, affirm that M. de Radowitz has never been sincerely abandoned ; that the triumph of M. de Manteuffel was more apparent than real ; that the sacrifice of M. de Redo. wits was never more than a momentary concession made through courtesy- to the Emperor of Russia, and that the King promised himself to withdraw it as soon as he could do so without inconvenience. These same persons affirm that M. de Radowitz has never ceased to be the real adviser of the King; and that it is his ideas and his system which it is wished to make prevail. However this may be, M. de Manteuffel, convinced that he had succeeded at Dresden, hastened to submit to his Sovereign the last plan of arrangement settled between him and Prince Schwarzenberg. Ile was told_ that he was in error, that he had misunderstood the interests of Prussia; and his project was rejected."
These complications point, it is considered, at the speedy fall of Man- teuffel, and the prosecution of a more thoroughgoing Prussian policy, under the " influence " of Radowitz. Prussia is to demand a "real parity with Austria in the exercise of the presidency "—the right to treat with foreign powers, and to sign all federal documents, conjointly and as of equal status with Austria ; and in furtherance of her own aims, she is to advocate strenuously the claims of the minor states to six votes out of seventeen, instead of three votes out of eleven or thirteen, as Austria proposes.
The English Foreign Office Globe, "with all its respect for General Radowitz's character, is not sorry to hear that his direct restoration to office is not considered probable": the return of M. Bodelsehwingh is "more probable"—he enjoys the personal esteem of the Constitutional party, and has "pre-Revolutionary experience." In reference to the opinions of the Cabinets of Paris and London, the-, Times says that "France has assumed a tone of strong and even bitter remonstrance against the incorporation of Hungary, Gallicia, and Lom- bardy"; and the foreign correspondence generally concurs in the state- ment that Lord Palmerston's remonstrances continue to be "urged ob- jectively," and only in the phrase of "earnest hopes."
12(1/IA.—The news by the overland mail from Bombay, of the 17th Fe- bruary, is tranquil and unimportant. Within our own tenitory, the points noted are, that Lord Dalhousie is occupied with education in the Punjaub, and meets with warm and efficient support from the inhabitants_ It is stated that four hundred and fifty miles of canals are now under construction in that province. The Bombay journals state that the fort of Dharoor, which revolted against the Nizam, had been reduced by a British contingent under Brigadier Beatson ; and they report that a large slice of the Nizam's dominions is about to be ceded in satisfaction of the 600,000/. due to us for the pay of our contingent.
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