8 FEBRUARY 1851, Page 1

The French President might be called the Napoleon of Pew

with more justice than Louis Philippe. His civil policy is widened upon his uncle's military strategy. A Victory won has no value in his eyes except as the means of enabling him to gain another. The Assembly having shrunk from a conflict with his Extra-Parliamentary Ministry, he forthwith charges the hesitating hostile ranks with his deletion bill. Anger at their pertinacity has for the moment reunited the dissolving majority, but the permanence of the union appears to be very doubtful. It is generally believed in Germany that the new Provisional Central Power will be established at Frankfort towards the middle of next months; and that the Prince of Prussia and the Archduke AlbreCht of Austria will be invested with the executive authority.Dictatorial powers, it is understood, are to be conferred on the Provisional Central Power to enable it to repress threatened disturbances in any of the neighbouring states. If Austria and Prussia adopt this policy, the Conference will of course be allowed to spin out its deliberations respecting a future constitution for Germany ad infinitum. In the mean time, Hamburg and Lubeck have received Austrian garrisons. The Cabinet at Vienna has taken courage to hint at an armed intervention in the affairs of Switzerland, with a view to

prevent that country from remaining a city of refuge for revolutionists; the connivance of France being to be purchased by al lowing it to occupy the French at the same time that Austria seizes on the German Cantons. The Hessian officers who threw up their commissions (some reports say the civil officials also) are to be tried by an extraordinary military tribunal composed of Bavarian and Austrian officers.