Instead of showing some dawn of brighter days in Germany,
the progress of time only thickens the obscurity and confusion. It is true that the Ministerial crisis both at Frankfort and Ber- lin is technically terminated by the appointment of new Minis- ters; but the incomplete state of either Cabinet? the readmission of ejected Ministers at Frankfort, the_ reactionary characte:r of those in the Prusiian capital, indicate that these high Govern- ments poSsess little more‘than a " provisional ".44Aracter.
'Meanwhile, disorder is rampant. In Berlin, we 'see General Wrangel indulging- in bravadoes itiore blunt and soldierly, more
provocative of popular crisis, than politic or wise. Cologne is in
0. a state of chronic riot. In Schleswig, the Danish Commissioner,
Count Moltke, has established a" Provisional Government" in opposition to the popular "Provisional Government " ; and is begging people to obey him, much in the fashion of a rival trailer • trying to filch custom from the shop over the way. Baden has been traversed by M. Struve and a hand of condottieri from all countries. Frankfort, seat of the Supreme Government, is pacified only by the presence of troops ; while the National As- sembly is discussing votes to terminate the "state of siege" which enables the action of those troops to be effectual.
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