There are further indications of the progress of Liberal or
popu- lar opinions in Germany. The Chambers of Hesse Darmstadt have ventured, in an address to the Duke, to allude in pretty broad terms to the Frankfort Decree; and the Duke, in his an- swer, professes, on the one hand, not to understand them, and on the other, to demand that greater confidence should be placed in himself. His answer has been somewhat unceremoniously dis- cussed, and made the subject of a resolution in the Chambers. The Emperor of Austria, in his speech to a deputation of the Hungarian States, announces, that on the convocation of the States themselves, they will have to discuss affairs of a difficulty . . . "exceeding all that had come under the consideration of the Diet for forty years, as well with respect to their 'extent as to their importance for the consolidation of the present and future welfare of the country. Wisdom, firm- ness, and prudence, would be necessary to avoid yielding to the attraction of innovations, which lead to an abyss through false ideas upon the public good."
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