POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
Some uneasiness has been created in this country by the absence of Prince Frederic William, who has not arrived with his wife, our Princess Royal. The official announcement that "reasons of State" detained him, increased this uneasiness ; while the more specific plea of "atten- dance at a drill" looked like a mere pretext. Without putting any strained interpretations upon the delay if not omission of his visit, it may well be understood that the heir presumptive of the Prussian throne would prefer to remain by his father and acting ruler at the present time, with views to counsel quite as much as military projects. It is not to be denied that a very disagreeable feeling is extending in some of the German provinces. A private letter which we receive from a source most trustworthy,—though not quite without Austrian con- nexion—paints the state of feeling in Hamburg ; although there is scarcely a town in Europe that ought to be more anxious for a restriction of the war to its present ground.
"Our rich Hamburg merchants are quaking in their shoes for fear that the war will spread and get the Bund mixed up in it. Business is almost at a stand still. This state of things coming so soon after the severe crisis, makes it very bad for all concerned. They had very little sympathy for Aus- tria; but now have still less for France, and the whole German people are BO exasperated, that I should not be at all astonished if they threw aside their usual cautiousness and pitched right into the French and all other dis- turbers of the peace. After an eight years' residence amongst them, I thought that I knew them pretty well, but their unanimity of feelings against the French, is the first time that I have ever known the people of the different governments to entertain anything in common ; if the Band joins Austria the people will go into it heart and soul."
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