26 FEBRUARY 1870, Page 3

The North Germans seem to think that with a Constitutional

',Government in France there is nothing more to fear, and are eager to go on eating the artichoke. On the 24th inst. a resolution was introduced into the Reichstag inviting Baden into the Federation, which might be a declaration of war with France. Count von Bismarck opposed the resolution, but only on the ground of inop- portuneness, and of the powerful position already acquired by the King in South Germany. The whole discussion showed that the 'Chancellor and the popular party are in accord as to the future, -and are only waiting to complete the edifice of German Union.