ue will be sold for one shilling. Another
catalogue will be printed in several languages, and sold at an increased
price.

A terrible storm swept the coast of Ireland during the month of
November. Great damage was done to shipping, and an emigrant ship, named
the Edmond, from Limerick to New York, was lost, with about a hundred of
her passengers.

GERMANY.

The chief centre of political interest at the present moment is
GERMANY;--and as the points out of which the controversy between Prussia
and Austria has grown, are somewhat complicated, a general view of the
political character and relations of the German States may be of
interest. After the fall of Napoleon, the States formerly composing the
German empire, entered into a confederation. The parties were Austria
and Prussia for their German territories, Denmark for Holstein, the
Netherlands for Luxembourg, and 33 independent States and Free Cities,
comprising a territory of 244,375 square miles, and containing at
present 42,000,000 inhabitants. The principal points agreed to in this
Confederation were as follows: That all the members possess equal
rights; they bind themselves for the security of each and all from all
foreign attacks; they guarantee to each the possession of its German
territories; any member to be at liberty to enter into any league or
treaty, not endangering the security of the Confederation, or any of its
members, except in case of war declared by the Confederation, when no
member can enter into any separate negotiation or treaty; the members
not to make war upon each other, but to submit all differences to the
decision of the Diet, whose final action shall be conclusive. The
affairs of the Confederation to be managed by a Diet, meeting at
Frankfort on the Maine, at which Austria presides, and in which the
larger States have respectively two, three, and four votes, and the
smaller one each, the whole number of votes being 70; in ordinary
matters the Diet to be represented by a committee of 17
plenipotentiaries, each of the larger States having one, and several of
the smaller being united in the choice of one. The army of the
Confederation was fixed, in 1830, at 303,484 men, to be furnished by the
States in a fixed proportion. The inconveniences of this cumbrous
organization are apparent. One member might be at war with any power,
while the others were at peace: thus the Confederation took no part in
the Italian and Hungarian warfare against Au