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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 2&

Tuc Premien Alliance, as a political °omission,
is perhaps a little undervalued in England ; but

. .
ou the banks of the Rhine it is abundantly evident
that the English alliance is in high favour. We
cannot pretend to be surprised at the cordial feel-
ing of the population in those parts towards a
country that supplies more consumers to the titbits
dltZt, between Cologne and 3laycnce than all the
continent of Europe. There are many thousand
mobil reasons why the Gnat Briton abroad, with

his ample pockets. his "Murray," and his letter of
credit rimtd by that undeniable plenipotentiary,
" Corrrs," should be held in honour, and his

substantial virtues be treated with sympathy and I
respect. In many of the Rhenish towns there is
a resident English community, not of social re-
fegees whose way of life is problematical, but of
coruervative, respectable, and solvent families.
At Bonn, for 'sample, there is always
a snug little British colony, with its chaplain
and other domestic institutions. When the happy
union between the royal families took place, the
iteletsoluble friendship of Germany and England
became quite a sentiment among poetesses and
hotelkerpers. It was felt that, for the future,
the Prussian navy would be foremost in the defence
of England, and the British army ever ready to pro-
tect the frontier of the Rhine. In speech, in song,
in floods of sour beer, the fruit• of this auspicious
royal and national alliance wen celebrated. This
autumn the sentiment has beeome almost a fact.
Planted at Coburg and watered at Coblente, this
Anglo-Prussian " idea " had struck its roots far
and wide in the German Fatherland, until the
A ~,i4u,ry Oa:44es in • fine frenzy beheld a
British fleet fighting the battles of Austria in the
Adriatic, and the Prussia,' Gutte overheard Baron
St 111.1.!NITZ damming with Lord Jaws itt NIEL!.
the terms of a new Coalition.
How sad it seems that all this sentiment and
all this policy, so dear to the German official mind,
should be rudely traversed by • ruffianly railway
inspector, and an unmannerly public prosecutor, in
the very heart of the Anglo-German country—at
Bonn ! It may be that we are the dupes of ignorant
prejudice, and that the unpleasant incidents circum-
stantially related in • letter which we publish this
morning are in some esoteric German sense in-
accestable to dull British souls, a mautier our
Rhenish allies have devised of impressing upon
Englishmen the advantage of " cordial relations"
with a Genuan Poser. According to this in-
terpretation, when the Crown Prosecutor at Bonn
insulted England in open court, he was really assert-
ing with characteristic subtlety the independence
of the Prussian Goverment, and raising the price of
its alliance. The foul-mouthed lluut.it was
demonstrating that the favour of Prussian
courtesy was woith paying fur. We are Pa
obliged to Herr Moues. for his judicial demon-
stration : public opinion in England will no doubt
take it to heart. At present, however, we are in-
terested in the curious aspect• of Penman justice,
in its relations to what we call in England "the
" liberty of the subject." Prussia we know has
lately been administering a polite lecture to the
Cabinet of Turin on the county of governments,
and the rights of sovereigns, and is st_tually defend-
ing the cause of European civilization at Warsaw.
Let as see how this enlightened Power regards the
rights of the stranger within her gates, if indeed an
En.,,,lialiman may consider himself • stranger at
Bonn. The case, as it is described by our Corre-
spondent, for whose authority we can vouch, is

simple enough. A British subject wee drag
out of a railway carriage, imprisoned, and fined,
not for any offence he had committed, but
for an courage he had suffered. In a court of
justice the public preeecutor not only insults the
victim of this outrage, but Engbahmen in general,
and the very nuine of England. The British
resident.' in Boun very properly resent this deliberate
anti official insult to their nation, and publish •
pnitest against it. Will it be believed that
for tine protest a state prosecution haa Leen
formally commenced against our countrymen t The
siren of this English protest are charged with
and threatened with tine and imprison-
ment, for havnigplard upon record, in grave and
funnel language, a statement of facts supported
Ly witneasea. The libel with which our country-
men are charged is nothing more nor less than a
recital of the uisultiag language of the titate-Pro-
secator, against which it protests. This insulting
language is not denied : it is the subject of an
official inquiry by the Prussian Government. But
the' inquiry is secret, and while the result is um..
deanded, the Ntate-Prosecutor female, in Whoa,
and the complainants against him are accused
of libel for having published the declarn-
tnm on which the ini,uiry was professedly
based. To this flagrant contempt of the
sit,iplest &anons of justice our countrymen
raised the preliminary objection that "DO
• prosecution arising out of a previous matter of
" complaint could be heard until the previous
" matter was disposed of." Hut in Rhenish
Prussia an objection of this hind was of no avail.
said the complainants found themselves by a
1.! 4.. iu:igieterill summons turned into culprit].
Thu liriti,h Ambassador, who, wonderful to