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Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 20, 7 September 1848, Page 2

The most important movement in Europe, and upon the grandest scale, is the establishment of an effective federal government in Germany, which is now proceeding with the energy of thirty -three years' repressed but umnteiiiipted preparation. The regeneration of a time-honored euhru is at hand. The Germans, 45,000,000 of men, if the 3,000.000 oi Piussia proper be included, will be again a nation, as they were from the times of Charlemagne to those of Napoleon, and as the federal act promised that they should be. The unity of that bia\e, earnest, and temperate race will be again reco\ered, seemingly under the auspices of Prussia, which has been unsuccessfully endeavouring ever since IS 10 to peisiiai.e Austria to co-operate for that purpose. For this she will be rewarded with the place of President at the great Imperial Diet, prouded that she throws herself entirely into the spurt of a German confederation. The establrshuient of a great national Parliament is one of the meiisuies contemplated. The contrast between the great changes which are simultaneously taking place in

Prance and Germany is remarkable. "On the one hand," says the Turns, " we behold a formidable social convulsion, accompanied by the expulsion and proscription of the last branches of the Royal Family, the total prostration of the feeble aristocratical element, and even a declaration of open hostility against the bourgeoisie, from the great capitalist down to the petty tradesman —the firm disavowal of all the traditional institutions, and policy of France, and a Republic established by the extempore authority of a central dictatorship. On the other hand we see Germany intent with far more real energy and unanimity on the great work of restoring the proportions of her Imperial dignity. Far from proscribing her princes she has appealed to them to take the iead in this national enterprise, and they have one and all responded to the call, for they are nut less Herman than the. lowest rank of their subjects. Jar from condemning her nobles as if they aloue.were,.unworthy to exercise political power, she calls upon them to resume their rightful place in the councils of the realm, and to vindicate the.liberties of the nation. Far from repudiating tradition, the universal object of the Germans is to reinvigorate the traditional unity of their common country, and the central power they seek to erect in th,y Confederation is not the power of a faction or a fragment self imposed on the rest of the community, but the combination in one centre of the equal rights of all ranks and members of the nation. .To sum up the comparison in one word, the changes- in France tend manifestly to dissolution ; those in Germany to the reconstruction of one of the greatest powers hi Kurope." One can understand what the Germans are about. They propose a definite object to themselves ; a single end, which, without indulging in mad or extravagant theories, they are earnestly labouring to carry out. And their national temperance of character gives the fairest promise of success. But the issue of the Gallic movement is not even to be guessed. We have no data to go upon; historical knowledge is at fault. Wild.schemes of socialism, or communism, seem to'be the order of the day ; but this last revolution is something sui generis, resembling nothing that we have seen before, and threatens to surpass all former revolutions in the radical nature of its changes.