• The turn of events in Germany is favourable to
the Constitu- tionalists. The Elector of Hesse-Cassel and his Minister Hessen- pfiug have not been able to hold out long enough even for the most prompt and partial aid from without ; neither of them hat shown any degree of capacity or hardihood to make good the auda- cious position which he had taken. Hassenpflug's final detection in flight, through his hysterical exclamation! Do not persecute me, sir," to a railway passenger who was talking at him, and then his arrest on a charge of forgery, are forms of defeat such as are courted only by the very weak. The fugitive, however, after a struggling agony of alarm like that of a mouse in the hand of curious housewife, was allowed to get away ; and he reached Ha- nsa where he and his master have set up a Provisional Govern- ment"! If Hesse-Cassel be allowed to settle its own affairs, how- ever, uncrippled by intervention of larger states, the result is easy to be discerned..
So it is said will the Duchies be left to their contest with Denmark, no foreign power intervening. Of course that does not equally predetermine the result; • and the policy of the Danish General, recently exhibited in his military operations, simply to repel aggression and to remain passive, with the view of exhaust- ing the Schleswig-Holsteiners their treasure and hopefulness' is about as formidable a pclicy as any that could be adopted inthe field. On the other hand, a victory, in the field could not finally ." 'establish the hold of Denmark over her reluctant provinces. And it is true that the Allied Powers cannot arrange an intervention, [La.tEsT EDITION.]
such a fact in itself is a sign that Unconstitutional Monarchism is losing its prestige in Teutonic Europe. The King of Prussia has just made one of those ambiguous manifestoes which announce nothing exoept that he has some pur- pose in his head which he will not explain. The conjecture sug- gested by his announcement is, that he is gratified at the moderate tone of certain municipal elections—to which he alludes by name !—and that he will show his satisfaction by residing for a little while in Berlin without his Queen ; in other words, he will lie to for a little while, but without dropping anchor, ready to make off if the beloved Berliners should have a relapse of immode- rateness. Imagine Queen Victoria coming to Buckingham Palace avowedly on the strength of a Town-Council election ! Furthermore, although the King of Wurtemberg has misunderstood him, he is still "a true German," quite stanch in his Germanism, and so forth; an assertion put in several forms, but in none explicitly. Whether it means that he is "German" as contradistinguished from Dane, and so bent on reserving the Duchies to the Federation—or "Ger- man" in the resolve to work for unity—or "German" in his phi- losophy—we cannot tell : the last, however, is the most improbable conjecture ; the second the most likely.
