We see it asserted in London that the Poll insurrection
is not suppressed. As a national movement it is suppressed; but it has left seeds of disorder which will take long time to subside. It is not the rebels alone that have made provision for future tumult : Austria has set class against class in Galicia; has taught the peasantry a tiger-thirst for the blood of nobles ; and has encouraged them to claim emancipation from feudal burdens, which, for fear of inviting similar claims in her German pro- vinces, she dares not grant—she must therefore prepare to sup- press a servile insurrection provoked by her own false promises. Cracow, by no means the place most gravely implicated in the revolt, is treated like a conquered city. Meanwhile, signs of a seriously unsettled state of public feeling show themselves in Germany. That which the censorship suppresses in newspapers and regular publications, that which cannot be uttered at what we call public meetings, is whispered in private meetings, breaks out in jokes at the saturnalia of the carnival, or is exhibited in the unaccountable and sudden arrest of men noted for activity and ability of mind. What Germany is drifting to, every one out of it must see. King Frederick William seems to have a half glimpse of the truth ; and he stands ready for the storm, his promised " constitution " cut-and-dry against the threatened re- volution, to concede it too late. Austria is in a different plight. In the Austrian dominions there is a government but no nation.
A German Cabinet in Vienna governs Italian, Sclavonian, Ma- gyar, and German provinces, by the trick of employing the regi- ments raised in each to keep down the popular *spirk in some one Of the others. A revolution would only give a new constitution to Prussia, (to Germany?) but it would break up Austria alto- gether.
