5 SEPTEMBER 1863, Page 1
Out of Frankfort much as yet has not come. The
Princes have separated, and most of them accepted en bloc the scheme of Federation we sketched last week, but with six dissentients —the Grand Dukes of Baden and Saxe-Weimar, the Dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, of Luxembourg, of Waldeck, and of Reuss (younger branch). In Germany the scheme is popular only because they think the assembly of delegates—the popular House—will gradually be able to enlarge its functions into an absolute German Parliament.