Although the passingiacidenr* lit the *rt. gmeataigions Strf political movement
abroad possess, a nipmentjnis intern*, they now be expressed in very few words.. A committee of .seventeen at Frankfort has arromuleatee scheme which, without merging tne inniviatia sovereignties, would construct out of the scattered members of Germany one of the grandest empires ever seen. Austria, indeed, threatens to withhold her concurrence ; and other elements of doubt are to be noted, in the disaffected state of. many. provinces not properly German—Poland, Hungary, Istria, and even Bohemia. The attempts to revive Poland, for her own glory and the ser- vice of Germany, have been frustrated by mutual Jealousies : the Germans could not give up their habits of domination • the Poles could not waive their barbarism, their impatience, and their in- tractable passions. Czartorysky has retired from his endeavour in despair. in Schleswig-Holstein the Danes are manifestly losing ; and Russia holds back her expected, succour : she will wait till King Frederick be attacked in Denmark proper,—an excuse which casts a slur on his Schleswig claims. However, both Denmark and Germany have accepted the offered mediation, of England. Austria has not improved her position in the North of Italy. A variety of conflicting reports tend, on the whole, to show that Charles Albert maintains his position ; that Radetzsky is where he was, shut up in Verona, except that he has eaten more of his provisions ; and that Count Nugent, the Austrian General who has newly entered the field, has done so with no brilliant success, but the reverse.
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