31 AUGUST 1844, Page 13

TAKING TITLES.

JEAN PAUL RICHTER said, sarcastically, that the French were masters of the land, the English of the sea, and his countrymen the Germans of the air. The Princes of Germany are resolute in maintaining and extending their intangible empire. In the words of Buass, "they're gaen, like Alexander, to spread their conquests further." France is taking North-western Africa and Otaheite; England has taken New Zealand, Hong-kong, and Seinde ; and the Elector of Hesse having taken the title of "Highness," the Grand Duke of Baden has gone beyond him and taken that of" Royal Highness." These important acquisitions have furnished matter for grave and prolonged debates in the German Diet.