The Prussian Government has published a treaty with Bavaria, signed
in August last, by which each power guarantees the other's dominions. The Bavarian Army, moreover, is to be organized on the Prussian system, and in time of war, offensive or defensive, the King of Prussia will be ex officio Commander-in-Chief of the Bavarian contingents. Baden and Hease intend to sign similar treaties, and all three powers will, it is said, enter into Federal alliance with North Germany the moment the Constitution has been voted. Wurtemburg alone holds out, and will require, it is believed, a little gentle coercion, either in the shape of an inter- vention or of a decree of non-intercourse, which would suspend all trade and almost all external communication. The King of Wurtemburg relies, it is believed, upon his relationship with the Czar, which, however, cannot avail him, now that the South has so far yielded. By midsummer all Germany outside Austria will, it is believed, have been firmly welded together, and the Hohen- zollern will without opposition mount the Imperial throne.
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