Abroad, as we have hinted in the beginning, the painful
uneasiness of the previous fortnight has abated. The prospect of war in Germa- Abroad, as we have hinted in the beginning, the painful uneasiness of the previous fortnight has abated. The prospect of war in Germa-
• ny is now deemed, by the watchers of signs, almost remote. Ne- ;gotiations are now as busy as military movements were lately threatening ; mystification has succeeded to alarm.% Not that great armies in close proximity can ever bode peace, but that the governments seem likely to get their ends with less threatening of actual blows. It is possible that the Prussian Cabinet has gained .all that it looked to gain by its measure of calling out the whole .military force of the kingdom. But if so, the objects compassed will appear revoltingly trivial to the people who secured them by such great sacrifices. The formal acknowledgment by Austria of the right of Prussia to form the Erfurt Sonderbund, promises while a score of German states still join Austria in support:- Jug an opposition Baud, far less substantial hope of nation- -al unity -6r Germany, than of added landed inheritance for the Hohenzollern family. Again, if Austria has conceded that Prussia needs not acknowledge the Frankfort League as the !still existing Confederation—no doubt, an important point of inter- national right—yet Prussia has yielded the infinitely more im- liortant point of international wrong, that Hesse-Cassel is a mem- ber of Austria's League by the mere adhesion of the Elector—that scandal to European monarchy—despite of the protest of the [LATEST EDITION.]
Hessian people constitutionally expressed by their representative Parliament. Both concessions, indeed, strikingly illustrate how little the peoples have been at all regarded by the ruling families who have so nearly set them cutting each other's throats through- out the common fatherland. The resentments of the disappointed Prussian people—the sense of insult which they may be supposed to feel at having been torn from their homes by thousands for an unreal show of resolution—remain in the background. The Prus- sian Parliament meets this week, with threats of a strong opposi- tion to the Government : the "reckoning" for the mere money cost of calling out the military of the state will be a difficult one to " settle " with this Opposition. France preserves her attitude of guarded neutrality ; simply adding some thousands to the army on her Rhine frontier.
