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it. The first question, however, is the Ministry, which
nobody confides in or will treat with. M. von Bismark is
looked upon, not without cause, as the arch-enemy of the
Constitution, as the incarnate principle of an insolent and
unreasoning despotism. It may le that one who has al-
ready shown himself so docile to the Royal will is prepared
to set his sails to a fresh breeze at his master's bidding.
Also it is possible that, were the emy question got over,
fresh advisers might be found willing to second the Crown
in the grateful task of retracing certain ill-advised steps,
and in pursuing the path of Constititional progress. Un-
fortunately, things have come to pass here, that the people
have lost all confidence in their rulers. They demand deeds
instead of fair words, or conditional pledges. It is to be
feared that it would be fruitless to urge a compromise on
such a Chamber as that which in two or three weeks will
assemble at Berlin. And whatever is to be done in that
way should be done before the Diet meets ; because, when
once the Ministers and Deputies are in presence of each
other, there is no saying how soon a fierce action may com-
mence and the quarrel become mom envenomed than ever.
The advanced Liberals talk of assuming the offensive at the
very beginning of the session, of declaring the ordinances
against the press illegal, and entailing prosecution for high
treason (violation of the constitation), on all who shall
assist in carrying them out; a declaration in accordance
with the opinion obtained from the legal faculty of the Uni-
versity of Heidelburg. With respect to those ordinances,
we hear that the Government proposes introducing them
first into the tipper Chamber, there to have them detained
until such time as the Lower Rouse shall have been dis-
solved. In this manner the Government will not have to
incur the scandal of re-enacting the ordinances after the
rejection by the Deputies, the which would be a more
flagrant violation of the Constitution than their original
enactment.

It has been stated in certain journals that Denmark had
returned an irritating or defiant answer to the summons
from the Frankfort Diet, but that is not the case ; for, up
to three days ago, no answer had been sent, or even drawn
up, and there is no probability of its being, in tone or form,
of the tendency above referred to.

The Kreuz Zeitung, of the 24th announces contemplated
changes of garrisons " in the interest of military discipline."
You are aware that it is the custom in Prussia to quarter
troops in the provinces in which they are raised. In this
arrangement there are certain obvious advantages. The ill
fed and worst paid Prussian recruit finds himself among
his own people, and his lot is doubtless thereby somewhat
improved. But there are also disadvantages, at least at a
time like the presen, when it is urgent to preserve him from
political contamination. Such changes of garrison being
unheard of in Prussia, their announcement attracted much
notice, coming, as it did, from a paper which supports the
Government, and is supposed often to act as its organ. It
soon appeared that the Journal of the Cross had broken
bounds and imprudently let the cat out of the bag, for, in
its following number, it declared the news to have be'n
based on a misunderstanding, and that the army, com-
pletely uninfected in all its parts by the subversive ideas of
the present day, had not given the smallest occasion for a
measure of this kind that had been announced. Nobody
supposes the Kreuz Zietung to have blundered so much as
to say that he has. Fortunately, its position secures it
against the warning which an opposition paper that had
made such a statement would hardly have escaped.

The Retirement of Sir James Hudson.

The following papers were published yester
day :

(No. 1.)
"EARL RUSSELL TO SIR J. HUDSON.
"Foreign-office, Sept. 10.
"Sir,—As you have expressed a wish to retire from your
post of Minister at the Court of the King of Italy, her
Majesty has taken this opportunity to signify her approval
of your long and laborious services by conferring on you the
Grand Cross of the Bath. The Lords of the Treasury have
obtained the Queen's approval to the great of the pension
to which you are entitled by the length of your service in a
mission of the first class.
"For my own part, 1 reflect with pleasure that the policy
which her Majesty's Government have pursued in Italy has
been represented by you with a zeal and intelligence de-
serving of the highest praise.
"Accordingly, no man has obtained so completely the
confidence and regard of the Italian Government and people
as yourself.

" In the period during which I have had the honour to
hold the seals of the Foreign-office, there has been the most
cordial agreement between us on all m. tters relating to the
public service. _

" Nothing, therefore, but your own desire to quit the
mission where your efforts had been attended with such
memorable success could have induced me to recommend to
the Queen any other person to represent her Majesty at
Turin. Had any cf the principal embassies been vacant I
should have asked her Majesty's permission to offer it to
you. But as this was not the case, and tho post you hold
has been one requiring incessant vigilance and causing
continual anxiety, it has been my duty reluctantly to advise
the Queen to consent to your retirement.
"I accordingly forward you your letter of recall, which I
request you to present, if possible, to the King in person.
"You will state to the King that his Majesty will always
find in the British Government a firm and sincere supporter
of the independence of Ita;y and of his Majesty's just rights.
.--I am, &e., " RUSSELL."

(No. 2.)
" SIR J. HUDSON TO EARL RUSSELL.—(Received Oct. 7.

" Turin, Oct. 4.
" My Lord—With reference to my despatch marked sepa-
rate of the 30th ult.,* I have the honour to report that this
day I had an audience of the King, when I delivered to his
Majesty my letter of recall, and stated that I was instructed
by your Lordship to say that his Majesty will always find
in the British Government a fi.m and sincere supporter of
the independence of Italy and of his Majesty's just rights.
"His Majesty having been pleased to ask me why I quitted
his Court, I replied that I had conceived myself bound by
an engagement, with your lordship to do so. Offered promo-
tion in March, 1862, I had obtained permission to decline
it, and to continue to reside at his Majesty's Court till such
time as my pension for public service was due to me.

"His Majesty upon this was pleased to express his ap-
proval of the manner in which I had fulfilled my diplomatic
functions at his Court.

" It only remains to mo to request your lordship to lay at
the feet of our most gracious Sovereign my thanks for those
marks of her most gracious favour with which she has been
pleased to accompany my retirement from the public ser.•
vice.

"To yourself, my lord, I beg to be permitted to offer my
acknowledgments for the confidence which you have placed
in me, and the kind consideration which you have always
extended to this mission—a consideration which, while it
lightened the toil and relieved the anxiety inseparable from
affairs, greatly advanced the public service.—l am, &c.,
" JAMES HUDSON."

EARL RUSSELL TO MR. ELLIOT.
" Foreign-office, Oct. 10.
" Sir,—l observe that in Sir James Hudson's despatch o
the 4th inst. he states as follows :

"His Majesty having been pleased to ask me why I quit-
ted his Court, I replied that I had conceived myself bound
by an engagement with your lordship to do so. Offered pro-
motion in March, 1862, I had obtained permission to decline
it, and to continue to reside at his Majesty's Court till such
time as my pension for public service was due to me.'
. _

" The circumstances were these :
" There was a report in 1860 or 1861 that an intention
existed of appointing Sir James Hudson to an embassy.
This report had no foundation—no such intention existed.

" In March, 1862, I had reason to suppose that an embassy
of importance might soon become vacant. Casting about
for a fit person to recommend to her Majesty for a difficult
and very responsible post, I could think of none more able
or more deserving of promotion than Sir James Hudson.
But out of regard for him I consulted him beforehand ; and
as I found that, though ready to accept an embassy, he did
not wish to leave Turin, the matter fell to the ground.
"I made no engagement with Sir James Hudson, and
never expected that he would resign till it should suit his
own convenience to do so. When, therefore, in the spring
of this year, he intimated to me his intention to resign his
poilt, I concluded that, after more than 30 years of public
service, he wished to retire from an anxious and laborious
post.

" I never supposed that Sir James Hudson was bound to
me by any engagement, nor, till very recently, did I imagine
that he considered himself to be so bound. You may re-
peat this statement to all who may inquire from you as to
the causa of Sir James Hudson's resignation. You will
also send a copy of this despatch to Sir James Hudson.—
I am, &c., " RUSSELL,"

(No. 4.)
" MR. ELLIOT TO EARL RUSSELL—(Received October 25 )
" Turin, Oct. 11.
"My Lord,—As it appeared from Sir J, Hudson's des-
patch, marked separate, of the 4th inst., that he had stated
to the King that his reason for resigning
his mission was
that he was under an engagement to your Lordship to do so
when due for a pension, I thought it right in the course of
my conversation with his Majesty, to assure him that Sir
James had laboured under an entire misapprehension in
entertaining the belief that you wished to remove him from
Turin.

" I informed the King that your Lordship had officially
conveyed to Sir James the entire approval of her Majesty's
Government of his conduct during the time he had repre-
sented her Majesty at this Cuurt, and that it was with much
regret that you had consented to hie request to be allowed
to retire.—l have, &c. "H. G. ELLIOT,"

* Reporting his having asked for an audience.

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