DANGERS OF WAR. (From the Times.)

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 233, 23 August 1848, Page 3

DANGERS OF WAR. (From the Times.)

The events in Germany have mateiially diminished the probabilities of a war with France, and happily, thejpaisions of ihe French people have not shown at present any excessive tendency to territon.il ag. grandizement. In tiuth, at this moment, setting apart the uncertain slate of affairs in Lombaidy, I lie most serious danger of wai lies on the frontier of Germany and Russia — in fact, in Poland. Jn all human probability, this conflagration will spiead throughout the dissevered fragments of Poland, and the Emperor of Russia, who alone in Europe 19 preparetl tv sutreiuler

nothing to the popular cause, will at last bear the biunt of the storm. From one end of Germany to the other, the ciy of lntred neainst Russia is already raised. The triumphant liberation of the Polish prisoners was one of the fint acts of the people of Beilr.i after their victory. The power e( Russia is universally reg^rduil as the source of thut system which has bo h/ng enthi ailed ihe cabinets of Vienna and Deihnj and that combination of the northern courts, who^e last act was the extinction of Cracow, is now for ever annihilated. By a common revulsion, the people oi CeniMiiy, who feel that they ure ju»t liberated from this fueign a«eendancv, turn a. a n?i|'he 11 mhein empire with recollections o* hitter hostility!; and in the event of an injured ion in Poland, rh-s re-const ruction of that ancient kingdom is commonly regarded in Germany as tlio most essential baiiicr and safeguard of Gcrtnan ii dependence. These gre.it questions, which are bearing down upon the continent, gives us hopes that Germany will not sink into a miserable atale of anarchy. She wants all the power and energy of her privies ; she wants all the loyalty and patriotism of her people , and il either of these elements of national strength fail her in the houi of need, not only her newly acquired frpedom, but her independence and her teiriioiy would stiller fiom the aggretsion of fortign enemies.

llousf. oi Commons, ftlaidi ].'$. — i\Tr. Gla<lstone wished (o know w liotlier it was ti no that the roal-w lnppt»is of the Thames hail applied to the Govci nmeiiL to he eniolled as special constables I Mr. Labourite: e had great satisfaction in staling that 2500 roal-w hippcis h«d niniiiinously volunteeied their sei vices to piolect the public peace. Sir G. Grey said, the recent base. attempts at disturbance had elicited in London and I lie large towns of England and Scotland, the most icsoluie determination on the puitof the gieat body of inhabitants to give their aid in suppiessmu them. Mauohestei odei^d 10.000 special constables, Glasgow 20,000, and Livei pool was ptepaied, if necessary, with a similar force. March 2S. — In the House of Commons, a discussion of some length took place respecting the leeeption of a petition Iroin an individual iiiimed James Beale, piaung foe various tiuly radical iHonns, and especially foi the abolition of the House of Lords, lair It. 11. Inglis stonily i esisied the reception of it, contending that the House might as well tejeivea petition for the abolition of ihe monaieh). Sir George Grey and Mr. Laboiifheie urged, however, that the rejection of. ibis petition would attach mote impoitance to it than it d(«ervod ; and uliimately, it was laid on the table.