GERMANY.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 394, 22 September 1849, Page 115

GERMANY.

The Frankfort Parliament having been somewhat unsuccessful, to say the least, in framing a Constitution for the whole of Germany, which should give satisfaction to all parties, the Princes of Germany have resolved to try their hands upon a scheme, which shall please "both people and potentates. A Congress of Royal Commissioners has assembled at Berlin for this purpose ; and the Emperor of Austria, more inclined to listen to reason than he was at the time when Windischgratz and Jellachich were gaining battles over his revolted subjects, has consented that his representative should take part in the deliberation. The two subjects for discussion are the closer alliance of the Germany States, and a future alliance between the German States and the Emperor of- Austria. General, Von Radowitz, the President of this Royal Congress, has proposed the draft of a scheme by which Austria and Germany shall be reconciled to each other, even although Austria should be deprived of the headship of Germany, which she has long held, and which she has continued to claim as hers of divine right. The other scheme, of which no draft has yet appeared, will relate to the German Union, under the headship of Prussia. The greatest obstacles in the way of a constitution for United Germany have hitherto been the jealousies of the greater and lesser Sovereigns of that country. No scheme drawn up by the Frankfort Parliament — and by which, of necessity, all except one would be de facto dethroned, or " mediatized," — could be expected to satisfy these princes. It remains to be seen whether any scheme drawn up by them can satisfy them individually, or the German people. We must own our misgivings to be strong, that the charte octroyie of United Germany will meet with the untoward fate of the charte octroyee of Prussia and Austria, and become inoperative.

Printing Machines. — The cylinder printing machines in Messrs, Hoyles' print works, Mayfield, Manchester, print a mile of calico in an hour! If fifteen of these machines work uninterruptedly for only ten hours each day, and for six days in the week, they would be able to print cottcn dresses in such week for one hundred and sixty-two thousand ladies! The actual number of miles of calico printed by this eminent firm alone in a single year, exceed ten thousand, more than sufficient to measure the diameter of our planet with! j