Our Princess B..wal has taken her Ilwartare, and her husband,
Prince Frederick William:of Pzussia, has not, .0 s-reportsaid he would, come over In fetal:titer back ; -" reasons of state," it seems, still prevailing to prevent 'him Irom'paying-that attentien to his bride or his mother-in-law.
A remarkable demonstration for war has been made from Northern Germany through the Augsburg Gazette. That jour- nal is generally considered to be an organ for giving to the world important political documents ; it is, as it were, the Times of Federal Germany, only being necessarily more -reserved than our great London paper, any proceeding of the present nature is the more worthy of note. The writer proposes that Germany, in its whole strength, shall immediately declare war against France, and forthwith march upon Paris. The calculations of the pro- ceeding are these. If Germany falter, England and Russia will both falter, and the French alliance will have more time to de- velop itself. At the present moment, France has barely 850,000 men left to defend a frontier of a hundred miles long; the garrison of Paris is weak ; and there are sworn enemies of the Napoleonic dynasty in the French capital. Whereas, Ger- many " is ready as far as is requisite. She has a good line of fortresses from Raatadt to Weed"; she can at once march with 250,000 men from the middle Rhine and as many from the Upper Rhine. A blow struck immedately will bring England "to the side of Germany as an ally," and "awe Russia into quiet." And so the penman of the Augsburg Gazette proclaims a German invasion of France, avowedly "to upset Napoleon." What can be the object of this demonstration ? The most in- fluential of the powerful German Governments, Prussia, knows well that any precipitate proceeding like the present would sim- ply alienate England irretrievably, and not conciliate her. Russia is quite as " ready " as Germany ; and if the -writer calculates upon political differences among the French people as favouring a German invasion, he speaks in total ignorance of the temper which animates every department of France, every sec- tion of French society. We incline to interpret the demonstra- tion as proving that the extreme war party in Germany has failed in oounteracting the more moderate counsels that Prussia has lately adopted, and that, consequently, it has made this appeal to the German public as a desperate means of overwhelming Prussian discretion by a general mob clamour of the Federation.
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