The one fact disclosed by the additional diplomatic papers from
Germany—the memorandum which Austria and Prussia have ad- dressed to the Germanic Diet, and the new protocol of the Confer- ence at Vienna—is, that the Germanic Powers are looking wholly to their narrowest interests, and to nothing else. The protocol is couched in studiously vague and equivocal language ; annexing the treaties of France and England and of Austria and Prussia to the transactions of the Conference, but deliberately keeping out of view the real object of the Western Powers—the guarantees to be ob- tained for future peace after the present war is ended. The note, regretting the war, asks the German Powers to unite with Austria and Prussia in a league for the mutual defence of territories be- longing to the states united. Sympathy with the Western Powers —care for the welfare of Europe—political objects of any kind be- yond the bounds of territories belonging to the German Sovereigns —do not find a place in this note; and the fact that it unites in that common object Courts known to be at variance upon the true poli- tical objects of the conflict, convinces us that the parties to it have no regard for the success of the cause to which we are committed. They tell us, undisguisedly, that they have nothing to do with us ; and we must reciprocate the cold compliment practically, by ceas- ing to pretend that we expect anything from them. The Urquhart peaty, again might point with emphasis to the fact that Lord Westmoreland's name is amongst the signatures to this purely Germanic transaction in the protocol—perhaps too appropriately for an English representative. Would it not be a charity to let him have "leave of absence" while the musical season in London is at the height ?
