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London, England, 1866-03-19 00:00:00

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" that on any petition for dissolution of marriage
under the said act of the 20th and 21st of Vit-
toria, chapter 85, and on any petition under
The Legitimacy Declaration Act, 1858,' the
parties, or any of them, are entitled as of right
to demand, and on inch demand the court shall
direct the truth of all contested matters of fact
shall be determined by the verdict of • jury."
Nothing can be simpler than the bill, or fairer
or more necessary than the proposed declaration.
The point in question is one on which no legis-
lation ought ever to have been requisite, as
the rights which it is now proposed to secure
should never have been withheld. It is
therefore with some surprise that we hear that the
ball is to be opposed unless a pledge is given that
it shall not apply to any pending ease. If this
were a bill to confer any new and special privilege,
such a claim might be reasonably preferred. But
a claim to have questions of fact, of unspeakable
importance to litigants, referred to a jury is so
legitimate, that if there were one case pending,
and no other likely to arise for the next ten years,
it would be proper to pass it for that one. We
trust that if the House of Commons shall see fit
to pass this Bill—as we cannot doubt—it will do
No without arbitrary exceptions, and in a form to
make it of the utmost possible utility.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
cram DAY.)

THS lIITOIII PnL.

The news devotee another article this morning
to as =poems of what appear to it the grave deficiencies of
the government measure of reform. Having tint asked the
working classes and their friends to wander what a repre-
sentation really meam, it proceeds to inquire whether a
hal, which in a great majority of the cities and boroughs
will not give a working man a particle more of his right and
proper infitumee than he already possesses, which will simply
give him the pleasure of feeling that he moves in
an immense crowd in which he is as a drop in the
,ht/matio, or of finding himself in a 'elect company,
where his vote will be worth money and nothing more, is
such a representation as they can approve of. Running
over a table of cities and boroughs, the Times stops at
certain stays to point out the inequalities which the new
bill would introdnee or increase. Those peculiarities, however,

would be in • certain aeon defensible did they tend to the
public good ; but if we suppose that in 50 or even 100
boroughs the majority of the constituency is handed over to
• lower class, will that be found strong enough to stand
its ground—to be depended on as the principal basis of the
constitutional gram This is at all events a matter for the '
fullest and most se•rohisg inquiry, and the issue of that
inquiry the Times, for its part, is most content to abide,
whatever the result may be.
The Daily Hems observes of the meeting at the Marquis
of fielisbury's that Mr. Disraeli's numbers are more im-
portant than his mesons ; but without any wish to under-
, rate the strength at his disposal, it contends that an sum-
med from ,the division on the Parliamentary Oaths Bill
to the probable division on • Parliamentary Reform Bill
has the very slightest value. Party allegiance which is
strong on the one subject is faint or non-existent on the
other. The fidelity of renegades is proverbially Insecure ;
and it should be remembered that almost ell the

recruits whom Mr. Diana expects from the
political cave of ladullaco, where Mr. Herman
and Mr. Lowe are oollecting the discontented, have voted
already on both sides of the reform question. These not
only cambiae with the Orion in opposing the government
measure, but unite in the grounds of their opposition, and it
le instructive to see that they do not dare to move the rein)-
, lion of the bill, as they would do were they certain that the
silence of the country 'prang from indifference to reform. But
if they reject the gevernment bill the permanent settlement
which they profess to desire wlfl be more speedy end com-
plete than they have any idea of. The anomalies in the
dirtritaMon of mate ass due to the precipitancy with
which the Reform Act of 1832 wee carried. The question
involves the most intricate niceties of detail, and those who
redly desire a satisfactory redistribution will be contest
to wait a session foe it. Meanwhile the practitioners of
delay and obstruction may be warned last their tactics are
pushed too far. The storm of 1831-2 followed a tran-
quillity sad indifference apparently as profound as that
which exists at the present time.
The Pat assumes that the conatre is opposed to the
government measure, but will sot allow that it is conse-
quently favourable to Lord Derby'. resumption of power.
That the result of the defeat of the government may bring
the conservative party, with judicious modifications and
additions, into office, and that if they adopt a prudent
polity they may enjoy a long tenure of power, is not at all
improbable ; bat this will not be eo much owing to their
merit an to the weakness of the government. The Port,
however, must do the justice to the cosservatives in this re-
spect, to my that theirs is an opposition forced upon them
by the ministers of the crown.

The Herald continues to take the defeat of the measure
for granted, and almost speaks of its rejection and the cause
in the past tease. It pities the reformers not only for the
character of their bill, but for the formidable fact that the
majority in the Commons, upon which they bad reckoned,
is wanting. In one paragraph the Herald says we are on
the first step of 'glissade, and that the opposition has
determined to cheek the movement ; end a little farther
on It contends that if the radical sections were honest or
conaistent they would oppose the bill on the ground that
it does so little.
The Telegraph devotes two leaders to the subject. It
allows the ingenuity of the tactics of the conservatives in
basing the opposition on the ground that the bill is
incomplete, and appreciates the wisdom with which
they have appointed the Times definitely the
tery organ ; but aesurellr, with the whole people behind
them, the government will never be arrested now by a
patched-up and spasmodic majority on the second reading,
cc in committee. They could go to the country, and not
a single " Palmerstonian" would "live to tell she tale.•
As the Telegraph reads the returns, the balance of parties
would be affected by the bill in a much less degree than
has been commonly surmised. Out of the 334 borough
seats in England and Wales, there are about 25 now
held by the tory party, in which the Reform Bill
would create a majority of artisan voters ; but it
is clear that local causes would in some of them
continue to operate after the extension of the
franchise, and would probably leave the politicel ascend-
ancy in the same hands as at present.
Never before did the Star feel so frilly the correctness of
Mr. Disraeli's famous saying wheal he predicted that con-
servative government in England mast become "an or-
ganised hypocrisy." This present pities of conservative
policy exactly fits the description. This is indeed a pities
of organised bat very transparent hypocrisy. Men who
are opposed to reform as reform—men who have always
devoted themselves to the mutilation or the that:ruction of
every reforming measure proposed from a liberal hench—
men who, when they took the business of reform into their
own hands for a season, only did so that they might pre-
vent others from carrying It on In earnest and to mesas—
these men now combine to oppose a Reform Bill because
it does not do sufficient jostles to the greet question in the
name of which it I. offered to the country ! Truly sash
hypocrisy is glass—the Iran shines through it

THN DEBATE ON INZLAND.

The Times directs special attention to the late speech of
Lord Derain upon Irish distress as presenting as fall and
as just a picture of the present state and future prospects of
Ireland as a contemporary can be expected to exhibit.
His lordship skowed that the Irish church, however inde-
fensible in principle, has nothing to do with the present
discontent of the country ; and even with regard to tenant
right the views of the Fenian, who simply want to get the
land for tLemsolvm, are totally different from those of
the advocates of taunt right The Tillieea is
equally indisposed with Lord Drifferin to believe
that emigration is the result of bad government and bad
legislation. The disaffection in Ireland springs first from
traditional hostility impede:od in the first instance by ill-
treatment ea the part of Mislaid, and in the second place
from the readiness of the Irish action to lend itself to
the movements Impressed upon i► by foreign countries.
Thus in 1798 the Espublicon Inure wee the motive
power ; in 1848 the evil sprees from the eseteglee
of her example, and now the movement springs, not from
any intestine cause, bat from the disbandment of the
great annlee which have for four years desolated the
Soothers States of America, and in sash of which Irishmen,

secerding to their wont, shed their blood so freely. These
adventarers, lading no beam employment for their sermds,
from the men love of pluder threw themselves an the
*ores of their native lima. Bat, like the throes of a
receding earthquake, each effort grows pereeptdbly weaker.
The Star characterless Lord Duff iris's rossete speedo,
consisting of genial excuses for letting thing. alone, as
irritatingly inaccurate. Ireland cannot be let alone if we
are to respect ourselves. The Lords may lit placidly sad
listlessly through a long debate, cheering nothing except
declarations of the right divine of Irish landlords is govern
wrong ; but Fenianiam is a warning which cannot without
guilt be disregarded. The timidity and torpor of successive

;;Almbristratlons alone keep us on the threshold of ques-
tioas which in all honour and patriotism we are
bound to settle. One of oar statesmen has lately
confessed with mortification how sadly the har-
den of ofiioial labour ties the hands and enchains the mind;
but he also declared his profound acmes of the need of wise
and comprehensive legislation for Ireland. We may well
trope that to him, if not to Lord Dufferin, Fanianism has
taught ita lemons, and that the amelioration of Ireland is
one of the first problems to which, as an iudependent
statesman, ho will devote himself.

The Times points out as a remarkable fact that everyone
acknowledged the value of Lord Enstace Cecil's observe-
tines upon the condition of the two military colleges,
Woolwich and Sandhurst Unfortunately the argument
was unavoidably confined to generalities, end we cannot
estimate by any practical test the reality of any par-
tioular annoyance alleged to prevail. Yet Lord Hart-
ington admitted a good deal when he said net only
that " disturbances • had certainly arisen among
the cadets, and been followed by inquiries, but that
theme junkies had again been followed by redrew.
Would it not have been better to revise the system before
the young gentlemen had broken the college windows by
way of calling attention to their grievances? After the
admissions frankly made by Lord Harlington we may trust
that Woolwich and Sandhurst, like other institutions, may
be brought into accord with the spirit of the age.
The fact which reaches us by the het Australian nail,
that the electors of Victoria have returned a large
majority for ministers, though knowing the attitude u-
nlined by theColonial-offico towards the government of Vic-
toria, is referred to by the Daily News as lending unexpected

force to considerations which it ventured to submit lest
week on the recall of Sir Charles Darling. What was
before a domestic quarrel will become, if it has not already
become, &dispute between the colony and the mother country,
and this is illustrated by • quotation from a speech of one
of the ministers to his constituents. The Daily News
cannot but think that with a little judicious temperament
matters might have been kept from arriving at this extre-
mity. Some allowance might have been made in Downing-
street for the jealousy which men of Eaglishblood naturally
feel for the right, of that branch of the legislature which re-

presents the whole people to grant and appropriate supplies,
and provide the ways and means for the services of the year.
The Daily New hopes, however, that it will be understood
in the oolouy that Mr. Cardwell, though he has not taken
a sufficiently broad view of the circumstance, has not in-
terfered on behalf of free trade, but simply been governed
in hie course by a desire to preserve for the colony the
great advantage of a settled mode of constitutional prow.
dere.

The Herald censures the government for refusing to
appoint a day of special prayer and humiliation on amount
of the cattle plague, and considers that the Bishop of Loa•
don, in suddenly substituting a day of an earlier &Rotor that
originally hied for the metropolitan diocese, lest it should
clash with a court festivity, has taken a step, which, at
the best, is most grievously &advised. Our contemporary

cannot believe that this change can have been actuated
by, or even known to, the high personage most imme-
diately concerned. The sincere and humble piety of her
most gracious Majesty is too well known to stand in need
of comment or defence. We are convinced that had the
difficulty been properly laid before her the Queen would
as once have taken the course so evidently dictated alike
by her private feelings and her public position, and set in
this, u in all other matters, the example of piety and
devotion.

The special correspondent in Jamaica of the Tek-
graph writes a distinct apology for the flogging of
women, and mays he should like to know how
they " could have been punished in any manner
short of death, unless it were by the lash or the stick."
He says that some ingresses have told him they preferred
flogging to being imprisoned. He quotes the evidence
of officers, who nay women actually entreated to be
flogged, and, thee, emboldened by his researches, pro-
arab to expatiate without reserve on she instruments of
torture which were used. "Beyond doubt," he says,
"the one used at Bath under the direction of Mr. Kirk-
land has wire plaited in the end and is terribly severe," and
It was used on women. But "Mr. Kirkland is," says he, "
cannot but believe, a kind and humane man." Mr. Kirk-
land is " a calm and even-tempered gentleman.*

The Rev. Dr. Reginald Kingston, coadjutor-
bishop in Jamaica, writes to the Times from the oolooy to
semen his 000 tempt for the folly and ignorance of oertain
parties in England, and indignation at their preci-
pitate and most unjust condemnation of a man "not
leas distinguished for the humanity than for the
energy of his character." The unanimity in his
diocese is such, that " it is not presumptuous for any of the
resident' in this island to profess that for himself per-
sonally he cases but little whether the British public pass
• favourable or an unfavourable judgment on our late
governor and our late legislature." The mischief already
done by the language of the parties in England referred to,
and by the apparent unction which it has received from
the appointment of the royal commindon, and the
suspension of the governor, "I deliberately declare," says
his reverence, "to be great, and indeed irreparable. It
will not be obliterated until this generation has passed
away, should Jemaioa so long continue to be in the posses-
sion of the British crown. The people believe that they
have the sympathy and support of the Queen, government,
and people of England."
After an interval of two or three years Mr.
Charles Dickens is again going to give a series of readings.
These, thirty in number, will be given in London, the pro-
vinoes, and in Sootland. The first reeling will take place
In Liverpool on the sth of April ; the first in London will
be given at the St. James's Hall on Tuesday, April 10.
At the meeting of the members of the Royal In-
stitnti ,n on Friday evening a lecture was delivered by Mr.
%lour Stewart " On the Evidence of the Existence of an
Etherial Medium Pervading Space."

The staff of the Ordnance Survey of the king-
dom consists of 45 clerks, 43 computers, 64 surveyors, 130
draftsman, 53 examiners of plans, 30 eontourves, 25 hill
sketchers and draftsmen, 44 lit'aographic tracers and prin-
ter., 20 colourists, 67 engravers, 13 printers and stamper.,
17 mechanics, 47 messengers, 370 Royal Engineers, and 350
labourers.

The next month is to witness the departure of
the bilth sad 71st French Regiments of the line from Rome
and the arrival of the French Pontifical legion of 1,200
men, commanded by the retired Colonel d'Argy. The
Count d'Argy belongs by marriage to the Pores family, and
has been lately living in retirement in a chateau near Mont
Briaon. His wife is the Countess Mathilde de Dames, of
the elder branch of that illustrious house, whine arms bear
the proud device, " Fortis d fide/is."
The Roman catholic world is being canvassed for
rabeoriptions towarls the expense of erecting a sumptuous
cathedral in the centre of London as the most fitting monu-
ment to the memory of the late Cardinal Wiseman. The
Revs. Messrs. Denny in Amnia, Patterson in Austria,
Boedinghans in Prussia, Boone and Eyre in Belgium, Dalton
in Spain, and other prelates and priests are collecting the
off eriap of the faithful for this purpose. The task of re-
ceiving tho contributions of France and Italy has been
allotted to the Bev. Dr. (or, in the language of Rome,
Monsignor) L. Clifford, who has inaugurated his mission in
the Eternal City. The first name insoribed on his book is
that of Pins IX., who. besides the amount contributed to
the fund, wrote on the page :

Theo ad down Domini II /miter sidlfleata.
Nape dealderatur downs =WW ll* isdlikanda.

Then come the names of Cardinal Antonelli, Monsignors
Talbot, Howard, Neve, Slaw and other British ecclesias-
tics; members of the sacred college, bishops, abbots, and
similar dignitaries figure on the list, which also records
sendar bosefsetors of high and low rank. The artiste
appliad to by Dr. Clifford have responded by gifts in kind.
Overbook, Ifinardi, Podesti, Flats, Bait; and Hoffm►n
bays give, pictures Jaoometti, Bensoni, Gailstti, Mad,
sad others contr bats marbies—the offal-big of Signor
I Bassani being a portrait of Giardina' Mama&

Eta Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Kamm 17.
The Queen drove in the grounds this morning,
attended by Lady Augusta Stanley.
Prince Alfred went to Landon, attended by Lieutenant
Haig.

lady Augusta Staah)y, who arrived at the (hustle yester-
day, Lady Fanny Howard, and Lady Cooper, had the
honour of dining with the Queen and royal family.
The Judge Advocate-General had an indium of the
Queen.

Mecca 18.

Her Majesty drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon,
accompanied by Princess Beatrice.
Prtnoe Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Haig, arrived at
the Osstle from London.

—Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Primus Her-
mann of Hobanlohe, with their children Prince Ernest and
Princes Elise, arrived at the Outlet on a visit to her Majesty.
To-clay is the anniversary of the birthday of Princess
Louisa.

The Queen, Prince Alfred, Prince Leopold, Princes
Beatrice, and Princess Hermann of Bohanlobe, with the
ladies and gentian= in waiting, attended Divine serving
this morning in the private chapel.
The Rev. T. J. Rowed], Chaplain In Ordinary to the
Queen, preached the memo.

The Prince of Wales, aeoompanied by Print). Alfred and
Prince flohanlohe, sod attended by LieutenantAolaisel
Koppel and Lieutenant Haig, went to Hithrall on Bahr.
day, and was present at the launch of the iron.olad ship of
war Northumberland. - - - - .

The Winnow. of Wales took e carriage drive, attended by
the How. Mn. F. Biome.
In the evening their Hord Highnesses went to the Hay-
market Theatre.

The Prinoo and Princess of Walla, with the Hon. F.
Stoner and Lientenant-Oolonel Kleppel in waiting, attended
Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday.
The communion aervioe was read by the Rev. John An.
twins, the Rev. Thomas Helmore, and the Rev. J. R.
Wood.
Anthem: "The Eyes of the Lord."—Nares.

Sung by Misters Carmichael and Dyson, Messrs. B.
Bernby, Cummings, and Lawler.
Mr. Cooper presided at the organ.
The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Worces-
ter, from Genesis, chap. 1. v. 27.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at
the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent were—Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George
Grey, the EL of Clarendon, the Right Hon.
Edward Cardwell, the Marquis of Hartington,
Earl de Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon.
G. J. Goachen, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on
Saturday. Preeent—Lord Chelmsford, Sir E. V. Williams.
Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Lauren°. Peel.

Despatches were received, on Saturday, at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of Gansu. Despatches were seat
to the Governors of the North American Provinces and
Bermuda.

Meassry's Lzyza.--(Tras DAY.)--Hie Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales held the mooed levee of the
season to-day at Bt. James's-pesos, on behalf of her
Majesty the Queen. It was as well attended as the first,
there being a large number of presentations, the names,
&wordier to custom, having been previously left at the
Lord Chamber`a;n's.ofilos.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wee, accompanied by Palace Te:k, and attended by
Hon. Mrs. Stowe and Colonel Koppel, honoured the
Haymarket Theatre with their presence on Saturday even-
ing, to witness the performance of The Overland Route and
Box and Cox.

The Prince and Princess Hohenlobe Langenburg,
with the infant prince and penmen, have left Brown's
Hotel for Windsor Castle.

The Countess of Derby held her second reception
on Saturday night, at the family residence in St. James's-
square. The reception was preceded bye dinner party,
when the following were the guests :—Visecont sad Via-
counter Oranborne. Lard and Lady Colville, Lard and
Lady Chelmsford and Hoe. Him Theriger, Lard de Lisle,
Lord George Gordon Lennox, Colonel the Hon. P. W. and
Lady Emma Talbot, Hon. Frederick and Lady Constance
Stanley, Sir Charles ROMA Mr. and Mrs. Bantle Cochrane
sad Miss Cochrane, and Mr. William Peel.

The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli had a par-
liamentary dinner on Saturday night at his residence, at
Grosvenor/ate. The following members of the House of
Commons were present:—The Right Hon. Lord John
Manners, Lord H. Gordon Lennox, Lord Naas, the Hon.
Hugh Anneeley, the Hon. Henry Cole, the Hon. Algernon
Egerton, the Hon. Charles Teeing., the Right Hon. J. B.
Mowbray, Colonel Hamlyo Pane, Major Walker, Mr. Bag.
nail, Mr. Dick, Mr. Du Cane, Mr. Goldney, Mr. Goodson,
Mr. Simonds, and Mr. Westropp.

The Hon. Mrs. Homilly, wife of the eldest eon
of Lord Romilly Master of the Roth),s died on filetamisy
morning. The lamented hAy was confined within the last
three weeks, and till shortly before her death was con.
sidseed to be doing well. She was daughter of Sir Gas-
pard le Merchant.

HEALTH OF THE SPEAKER.—The health of the
speaker, we regret to say, does not improve. From in-
quiries made this morning it appears that the right hon.
gentleman bad a quiet day yesterday, and passed a good
night, but that it cannot be said that he is better than he
was on Saturday. He is very weak, and has been recom-
mended a visit to the se►-side. He will go either to
Brighton or Hastings. Ile is attended daily by Sir William
Ferguson, his medical attendant.

ROYAL BOTANIC Socarcr.—Another exhibition
of spring flowers took place on Saturday in the prdeoa of
this society. Although we are yet early in the meson, the
specimens displayed were by no means few in number as
deficient in variety. Hyacinths, tulips, and the narcissus

occupied the first place in the programme, and were well re-
presented. Then came the delicate and gracefal cyclamen,
certainly among the most charming of spring flower,, and
a collection of rooms so rich In has, and so perfect in form,
that they seemed like an anticipation of the on-coming
summer. There were, too, a few fine rhododendrons,
which were regarded with general admiration. In the eon.
servatory, where an excellent selection of music was played
by the band of the2ndLifeGuards, the plants were rich with
blossoms, and the air redolent of perfume. Although rain
had fallen in the morning, and the sky was hung with
masses of heavy clouds through which, foe several hours
lo the afternoon, the sun only fitfully appeared, the number
of visitor, present was considerable. Other spring flower
shows are announced by the society for Saturday, April 7,
and Saturday, April 21 ; sod two Mondays in June are to
be set apart for American plants.

On a requisition signed by forty-seven of their
number, a meeting of Irish members will be held in the Tea-
room of the House of Commons this afternoon, for the pur-
pose of considering the question of a reform in the manage.
meat of railways in Ireland, and the expediency of appoint.
ing &deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, end
of calling ot the government to take some action under the
power* given to them by the General Railway Act of 1844.
The Emperor and Empreas were present on

Saturday at the first representation of M. Emile An-
gler's new play La Contagion, at the °dim. The Princes,
Mathilde, the Princes, Antoine Bonaparte, Chevalier Nigel',
Sainte Beare, Maas. Send, MM. Beaker, Foul& Behio,
Jules Pane, Cremieux, ice., were also
present. When the Emperor made his appearance in the
theatre cries of " Vire Le Luxembourg," " Ls Pipiniere,"
were uttered amidst the applause of the sadism.. Outside
the theatre some four or five thousand students were
assembled, who raised the same cry in favour of their
favourite pleasure ground. The Empress, in a red wade,
graciously saluted the crowd from her earth"
and the students who had been waiting an entire hour and
seresing themselves with singing the soup of Mlle.
Theresa quietly disposed. Thunders of applausegreetedney
senteace that could be applied to the polities of the day
and the liberal expectatioas el the country, whilst the
satirical hit, at knaves high and low, equivocal heroes, aid
intrivurs of *ray class were oweired with ansnimou
tame.

LATEI3T INTELLIGENCE.

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.
SERIOUS ASPECT OF AFFAIRS.

The Journal of Frankfort, in its correspondence
from Vienna of the 14th of March, states that
military arrangements of the greatest importance,
and portending an impending rupture between the
two great German Powers, hays been adopted by
Austria. In a few days, the writer says, you may
expect to hear of the movement of a large
Austrian force towards the Prussian frontier. From
another source the same journal adds, that an order
for the concentration of 100,000 troops on the
frontiers of Silesia has already been despatched
from Vienna.

The Borsenhalk correspondent says that though
he does not believe in a collision between the two
powers as inevitable, he has it on undoubted autho-
rity that the relations between them gave rise to
the most serious anxiety. The tension be-
tween Austria and Prussia has reached its most

extreme point. It will be impossible to con-
ceal much longer the secret which has led to the
military arrangements which have been adopted by
Austria, a portion of which has already been put
in execution.

The Debate of Vienna says that the British
cabinet seut a despatch to Berlin pointing out in
very strong terms the grave responsibility which
would test upon Prussia if that power should pro-
voke a war in Europe. The Augsburg Gaze*
publishes a despatch from London dated the 16th
announcing the same fact. The Nord Deutsche
Gazette, on the other hand denies that any such
despatch has been received in Berlin.
The situation (says the hulependance Beige) has
arrived at an extreme degree of tension, and
although the alarming news which comes from Ger-
many is not to be absolutely trusted, we cannot

dissemble that the chances of a war between the two
great German powers, which the ministerial journal
of Berlin recently declared to be absurd and im-
possible, seem to be greatly increased.
The Calorie Gazette of the 15th says :—" The
situation is serious, and the tension between Austria
and Prussia is rather increasing than diminishing.
The policy of Herr von Bismarck is more acceptable
in high quarters than heretofore. General Manteuffel
has deserted the section of the friends of Austria, and
the military circles around the King incline to the
side of the President of the Council. The ordinance
relative to the plots of the Auguatenburg party is
a grave symptom, as it may possibly give rise to a
state of war. The diplomatists are busy in every
court in Europe."
"It is manifest," says the &Me, " that both
parties in Germany are making preparations to
mset imminent eventualities. It is announced from
Vienna that the Austrian government has, in a
despatch to the European cabinets, thrown upon
the Prussian government the responsibility of the
war, should a war be produced by its policy of
absorption."
The Paris Presse mentions a report that M.
Werter, the Prussian Minister at Vienna, has ac-
tually in. his possession an ultimatum which at
the proper moment he will suddenly launch against
Austria, and that negotiations have been going on
between Prussia and Italy with a view of taking
common action against Austria.

(urrisn'a ULM
ROML

ROME, MARCH 18, Evronto.
Baron Meyendorff, the Russian Charg6 d'Affaires,
has left /tome.
The Dowager Queen of Saxony arrived here this
morning.

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