Show from the london times the spirit of germany in the present state of affairs it becomes the duty of every people possessed of In flence influence abroad to act with circumspection firmness and dignity europe ia is suffering from a dis ease which after being repressed for a generation has now nov broken browen out with all its former acuteness this ibis impatience of international restriction sand band a desire to throw the avord into the balance at every diplomatic dispute have llave again appeared in the temper of the french peocla and no one living can pretend to foree foresee ethe the consequences forthe present the efforts ozithe emperor are arc of course devoted io to persuading foreign nations that the war in italy isto lato be bean an exceptional episode to hig bis reign reig which according to the pro gramme of bordeaux is to be a period of peace but it Is odthe nature of such commotions to bafile baffle all the calculations of mankind the wisest statesman cannot foretell who will be engulfed 0 and who will he be spared if the continent of europe be not within a twelvemonth convulsed from one end to the oth erit will be due to the moderation and wisdom of the powers which labored till within the last six weeks to preserve peace and who are now seeking to insure their own neutrality we maybe may be siire sure of this that the belligerents will give no assistance in averting a general war should the struggle become desperate and the chances evenly balanced both france and austria will endeavor to drag in the populations ions to which they look for help the one will work harder than ever to influence the germanic diet and to fan the excitement of the minor states while the other will revolutionize italy as far as the straits of messina and perhaps seek to engage the spanish government in t the he contest I 1 As far as we can judge the question whether this war shall become general rests at present principally with the ibe prince regent ef prussia and his advisers to the he court of berlin has been confided at its own request the initiative in all measures for securing the safety and honor of germany the decision of the regent will probably be respected and in the agitation which prevails throughout the country no rash act will involve the confederation in a war with france we say that this will probably be the ultimate result but certainly at present the war spirit has risen to such a he height haight i that no one can tell into what dangers the enthusiasm of the bavarian and hanoverian courts and of the people everywhere may urge the country in spite of all the caution of berlin the article in the augsburg gazette which we printed yesterday will seem extravagant to englishmen but it is only a sample of the daily outpourings of the german press that louis napoleon meditates a renewal of bib bis uncles policy that the campaign in italy is to be succeeded by a camp campaign aig alg n on the Rhine rhineland and that Ger germany maty now united and enthusiastic ought to bring things to a crisis at once orce oice and anticipate the threatened u usurpation a ur pation is the constant argument of young and old throughout the fatherland and the augsburg gazette only repeats what may be heard beard in every public place we may take indeed this article as ex expressing pr easing pretty fairly what the average german thinks about his bis own country and france and the state of europe ro e and the composition shows the strength an and add ane ne weakness of the people to whom it is is addressed the duty of germany I 1 proclaims the writer is to go to w war ar with france at once with an army of half a million of men the confederation might march on paris and make its vainglorious inhabitants rue the lay day when they excited the enmity of a teutonic people we advance on paria paris to upset napoleon to deliver the world from a nightmare which has tuo long already oppressed pre a bed sed its chest to destroy a system which isaji is a plague ague acue to morta mortal I 1 lity right and chiv civilization i liza ilza such stich services to humanity must mu t of course have their reward this can be no other than alsace and lorraine the broad wedge west of the line of luxemberg by met mets and nancy to basie basle that fatal wedge federe which strikes so deep into the german t territory errit ory which so long has offend offended ed every eye in germany on the map of europe must roust baul haul down the french flag stich such is the pro gramme of german geiman conquest for the year 1859 it may be raving 0 but still at the present moment people are raving in nearly the same manter mant er through every cloud of tobacco smoke from hamburg to vienna the ile only thine thing for us to consider is whether such threaten any serious remit uit nit and how bow far the spirit of which they give evidence may be considered aa as a danger or a safeguard to europe with respect to the former question we must admit that the minor german states are likely to give much trouble to prussia ang ans t that at if the french emperor does not find himself in a quarrel with them it will be sole pole solely ay through the exertions of the court of berlin it is rather difficult to penetrate the teutonic mind sufficiently to ascertain whether in the of its inner consciousness conscious nefa nepa it believes that the germans can beat the french or not to j judge d from th the e frantic appeal to brov providence idenie and liberty Lib i eity ity and justice and england and sweden and norway and every power abstract or material one would think the germans in agonies of terror if napolain Napo Nap lgon igon III lii were publishing decrees from dresden or berlin the german papers could not shriek more wildly han than ban during t the h e last three months and yet there reema seema to ie be i iio io o doubt that the people and the army are inflamed by something very like martial ardor their desile to fight arises not so much from desperation as from confidence they believe that france wants to make war upon them sooner or later and they think themselves trong tron enough to give her a lesson at once they fave have been galled by the lead france has taken in european affairs and by the chronic boasting of the french soldiery who seldom allow a german to be ten minutes in their compan company V without an allusion to the left bank hank of the rhine the aln api ance between france fran ce and russia has roused them still further though they fully count on the unwillingness of the czar to carry things to extremities with the dynasties and people of germany proper the consequence ia is that in many any of them really do wish to go to war with france and the southern bouthern states have ventured on acts which might justify france in demanding ing explanations the bavarian government is js ostentatiously transporting austrian troops through its to the seat of war while both this state and saxony and wurtemburg Wurt emburg are supplying the austrians Aust rians with evey every material of warfare which thy cab can can furnish astor asfor As tor for the bavarian court there can be no doubt that it would be delighted to find the french emperor take umbrage at its breeches of neutral ity and commit some reprisal which would draw the whole confederation into the quarrel napoleon however will no doubt be on bib his guard arid and will ignore as long as he can the provocations pro vocations of the more excited courts in the conduct of these we need not say we h have ave no sympathy while we consider it a guaranty of european freedom that the germans should be united strong and determined to allow no aggression on the part of their neighbors 3 et a war vi mith with ith france for the mere purpose of supporting the austrians Aus Aust rians in italy would meet with the just reprobation of the tha whole world tle tie first duty of germany is to herself and the resources which now permit large armies to be brought into the field should be husbanded hus banded to defend the fatherland in the combinations which the next few years may witness the existence of the austrian dominions in asly is not a matter of importance to the confederation confederate erat ion lon many believe and we think justly that th the e empl empi empire re would be stronger should the outlaying outlawing out laying provinces of venice and milan be from it the daren danen dan dar danger darer er against which europe hasto haa has to guard is not tle ile the defeat of austria but the lawlessness and aggressive gres sive designs of two great despotic powers security against these can best be obtained by the course england has adopt adopted ed a general and permanent preparation for war and a resolute determination to observe the strictest neutrality ty it if germany accepting the leadership of prussia will content itself with mith being ready for any future event the military ambition of france may be sufficiently checked by such a permanent attitude of defense deafen ae but ifa if in irl obedience to extravagant ampre apprehensions h it rushes into a war to help those ought to need no help from any one the world will not be sparing of its just reprobation |