The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1863.

Among the insurgents belonging to Wysocki's
corps I found a young lady so timid and so afraid
of being looked upon as a wonder that she kept
herself in almost perpetual seclusion, but so brave
that on the day of battle she insisted on being
placed in the first line, and greatly distinguished
herself in the action. Her relations had done their
utmost to persuade and even force her to remain at
honie,but she had threatened to commit suicide if she
were detained, and they feared that she might keep
her word. She had changed her name from " Marya"
to " Maryan " (the Christian name of Langiewiez),
and was known in her company as "Panne Maryan,"
or, es Englishmen, if they bad met her in the woods,
would have called her " Medd Marian." Maid
Marian has now returned to her family, and I am
sorry to have to add that this prodigal daughter—
prodigal, at least, in acts of daring—is
badly
wounded. morning
I had been told that early on Sunday
some one would call for me and drive me somewhere
in the middle of a wood, where I should meet some
friends, who would then show me where the detach-
ment in which they were to serve was concealed, and
it to the frontier. The
enable me to accompany
person expected came at the appointed time, men-
tioned a name, and then, instead of taking me to the
to the house of a neighbouring
heart of the forest, drove me through a beautiful
woodland country
eiproprietor,ehiwhere, besides. the host, I found one of
promoters of the expedition, two of the
principal officers of the
f Horodyeki's corps, and few other
insurgents lying down on the lawn, and engaged in
the peaceful occupation of smoking. One of the
officers wok out the map of the country about to be
entered (it was a photographic print from the pri-
vate map of the Russian Staff), and pointed out to
me the place of assembly in the forest, the spot at
which the frontier was., to be crossed, and the road
by which it was intended to march on Radziwilow.
At lunch I had 75 pamphlets on the Polish question
given me to read, but preferred eating. Afterwards
the men who were not going to fight occupied them-
selves with pistol shooting, fencing, and other war-
like pursuits until dinner, while the officers
went singly to visit the first place of en-
campment, and came back with the alarming
news that an Austrian patrol had been seen
hovering about the spot where most of the
arms lay buried. In the evening a "revision" was
announced and the house cleared of insurgents. All
through the night messengers were continually ar-
riving, and the first news in the morning was that
the arms had been seized, that the labour of three
months had been lost, and that the expedition could
not start. Ultimately it was discovered that about
a hundred rifles had been taken, but that there was
still nearly three hundred in a place of comparative
safety. The question was raised as to whether it
would be advisable to postpone the departure of the
expedition until more arms could be procured, but
it was soon decided not to risk, by further delay,
the seizure of the whole stock.
At last, early on Monday afternoon we got into a
cart, built without springs for the same sort of rea-
son for which Highlanders are said not to wear trou-
sers, and went into the wood. Turning from the
high road into a cross road, from the cross road into a
lane, and from the lane into a private path, we came,
after many windings, to a little glade, where the
long grass had been crushed and flattened as if by a
roller. The former presence of human beings in this
sequestered spot was indicated by an old boot, which
Hoby would have disavowed, and a cask containing
gin—from which, as it eras not yet empty, it was
presumed that the insurgents could not be far distant.
They were so well concealed, however, that although
we had good guides (including a forest keeper
of the estate), it was not easy to find them. At last
we burst upon a band of brothers, who were engaged
in the difficult and to them evidently novel occupa-
tion of trying on boots. The boot so contemptuously
abandoned in the first halting-place had apparently
been the only one among some 30 men. The major
was answering questions on all sorts of subjects from
boots upwards, and was at the same time superin-
tending a distribution of pistols, which, being
larger than any pistols ever seen before or after-
wards out of a peutomime, looked very terrible, and
produced (as they were intended to do) a fine and
healthy effect in the Ruthenian village population.
The peasants inked a good deal scared as the in-
surgents marched through the fields, but were soon
reassured, or pretended to be, when a few words
were spoken to them in kindness. Of attacking or
molesting the insurgents in any way there was, of
course, no thought, more particularly as the half-
detachment, consisting of 200 men, locked in the
moonlight, as it straggled along in double file, like
a much larger force, and was pronounced by impar-
tial spectators to be at least a thousand strong. Two
peasants, however, were overheard whispering that
they had a great mind to go off and tell the Aus-
trians. They were arrested, asked if they wanted
to be hanged, and, replying in the negative, were
told how to avoid that fate so far as it was likely to
be inflicted upon them by their Polish compatriots.
They were then put into a cart and driven along
after the detachment, and were not liberated until
everything had been made ready for crossing the
frontier. •
eve marched during nearly all the first night,
passing from the moonlight into the darkness of the
dense wood', where nothing but glowworms, and
hers and there in the insurgent column the light of
a cigar, could be seen, and then again into the moon-
light, until at last we came to a river, or mountain
s ream (running down from the Carpathians), and
sat down by the side of the waters and supped.
got persons said that it was one of the best suppers
they had ' ever had (of some of our friends it was the
last); and the breakfast to which a select number
were
invited
made in a sauchepan,mi and servedecially ont
was
m also muc adred, esp
some tea-soup
in saucepan- wine glasses, and wooden ladles.
lid,
During the halt, of which advantage was taken
to eat a
ent joined us, bringing with
from 40 to 50 cavalry. The
him 200 infantry and
com-
mander of detachment, breakfast, Horodycki, the
tachm ,
hiding places in the brush-
or pulled out of their
•articular batch had
wood, and I found that this rifles, bayonets, and scythes were now disinterred,
p
'
all been concealed at about 20 paces distance from
a public road running through the middle of the
wood. The Austrians had not found them because
they had been hidden where the Austrians were
sure not to think of looking for them.
As we were about to go away from the cottage
where we had taken our early tea a plain and shrill-
voiced woman came out and complained that her
husband had deserted her in order to go and fight
the Russians. It was impossible not to understand
that he had chosen the least of two evils. The poor
man who preferred his country to his wife, and
death to his home,
galloped to the frontwaanscliwn
I hope out of hearing.
was pointed out to me Afterwardswho
h ats hseo 0 one
ovualtroyf,
sight,
aignhdt,naonwd
o h ad deliberatelyanother
a b patriotan .
doned his family, leaving them in great want, and
all on the plea that he loved his native land. The
. were '
great majority of the intantr however, could have
had nothing to leave. They
evidently steeped in dishonourable men wpoverty,ho a
n wered,
when one of their officers afterwards told me that
he had seen swarms of men like them lounging
about Whitechapel, Whitcchapel was calumniated.
One minor disadvantage of employing
that it is disagreeable, and even painful,o
au
fehr men is
decent
persons to remain in their neighbourhood. It must
be with the view of avoiding them that g 0 many
- of
the sons of the proprietors go into the cravalry,which,
composed as it is, of all sorts of horses and all sorts of
riders, is utterly useless, except for the service of the
camp, and is scarcely ever employed in action. I saw
Mats°me of the new corners were dispirited at the idea
of having such riffraff for their comrades, and one
of the officers, noticing the fact, said to me, " These
young men have come to the camp under the im-
pression
that they would find every one here as
good
as
themselves. I wish such were the case, but
we must do our best, and we will try to make sol-

diers of them all when we get on the other side of
the frontier."

As for the officers, they were all men who had
seen plenty of service in foreign armies, or who had
dietie guished themselves in the present Polish insur-
rection. llorodycki, the chief of the detachment,
will be remembered by persons familiar with the
incidents of the Hungarian war of 1848-9, as having
defended the bridge and the passage of the canal at
Temesvasagainst
was
noverpowering forcewhi
while the
Hungarian army effecting its retreat. Major
Hinorkodeyepcikniglostthehaelnfemhiys battalion,good
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washe succeededsimple,
straightforward man, a
to seeing visions. majority of Poles,
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giving directions on one subject or another, and
now, at half-past 9in the evening, sat down to take
some refreshment. He had a little claret in his
flask, and before drinking part of it wished pros-
perity to England, and said how glad he was to
find that the English had so much sympathy for
Poland. I answered that, although this sym-
pathy existed and was sincerely felt, it was by
no means certain that it would lead to a decla-
ration of war against Russia. He replied that the
time for intervention had not yet come; that he
had never expected there would be any intervention
before the spring; and that before then the Poles
would make such effjrts and prove themselves so
strong that we should not refuse to give them a
helping hand, and that no more would be necessary.
I do not think Horodycki shared the opinion of
some of his countrymen as to the good will of the
peasants towards the insurrection. At least, he
turned some Ruthenian peasants out of the camp
who had come there with gifts of fresh butter,
sheep's milk cheese, and potted cream. He feared
these Greek Catholics et dona ferentes, and said,
when I asked him whether their offering was not
a good sign, " They are with us now that we are
here, they will be with our enemies when we are
gone. I know them, and have sent them away." I
must add that a Ruthenian priest and. his wife
brought something more than butter and cheese ;
they brought their nephew. This was a testimony
of sympathy which could not be mistaken, and the
young man was accepted with thanks and sent
across the frontier. Several ladies also visited the
camp, and so inundated the place with strawberries
and cream that Horodycki, fearing no doubt that
discipline would be relaxed and the forest of Nak-
washa converted into a Capua, turned back and
gave orders that no more women should be suffered
to approach.
Then Horodycki had to preside at a trial, and
though there was no execution I saw the execu-
tioner. A certain cavalry man, who spoke Polish,
Russian, German, and French very imperfectly, and
swore from time to time in what was supposed to
be a sort of Moldavian patois, had got drunk on
the march, and used his sabre in lieu of a riding
whip. When remonstrated with, he said it was
all right, and at the same time broke his weapon
over the bask of the unhappy beast ridden by the
man who had dared to interfere with him. Thought-
ful beneath the Polish beech, in the notorious posi-
tion of Titres sub tepnine fagi, reclined the chief-
tain when the culprit was brought before him in
the custody of two sentinels and a third person,
who I was given to understand had the functions
of provost-marshalassigned to him. Outward appear-
ances were decidedly against the offender, and when
Horodycki drew himself up on the grass, looked at
the broken blade, and began to expatiate on his
crime, I thought his last hour had arrived. The
sentence, however, passed on the prisoner was sim-
ply that he should be turned out of the detachment.
He entreated so earnestly to be allowed to remain
that I thought he must be begging for his life, and
ultimately the chief told him to go and lie down and
get sober—the first part of which injunction was
faithfully performed.
The second officer, the major commanding the
infantry, was Synkiewicz, son of the historian of
that name, and captain in the army of the Kingdom
of Italy. Synkiewicz, without knowing his country
from personal observation, had fallen in love with
it through imagination ; but he said that he found
the Poles what he had always imagined them to be.
Some of the Poles do, indeed, come up to the ideal
which their warmest admirers have formed of them,
and these., were the men that Major Synkiewicz
habitually associated with. This does not alter the
fact that the greater part of the detachment consisted
of persons whom honest scavengers would have had
a right to despise. It would have been inspiriting to
most persons, but to me was saddening, to see the
delight with which this officer looked forward to the
hour fixed for entering Volhyniae—for I knew that
he must die there, or come back disheartened. He
would not allow that anything was wrong in the
detachment. If some one said that the arms were
a little clumsy, he replied that the greatest battles
of modern times had been gained with arms not
nearly so good. As to the men, they were not pre-
possessing in appearance, but would know how to
fight. As to numbers, if four hundred and fifty men
were really determined to cut their way through an
opposing force, they could do it, however large
that force might be. As he was talking to me
about the Opera, and of the invigorating effect which
music, or even the recollection of music, had upon
him, I said it was a pity (as it really was) that Mario
could not see his costume, which was a sort of intel-
ligent first tenor's version of the Garibaldian make-
up. lie was told that the Russians would be sure
to pick him off; but he replied that he wished to be
conspicuous for the sake of his men, and that the
Russians, if they aimed at him, would not hit
him. They, however, sent a bullet through his long
chestnut-coloured beard when he was inside Radzi
wilow, and afterwands brought his horse down, an
unpleasantnboeta,,st Good
be
reagnriemttaed.
l, when in the darkness of night
it was all but impossible to saddle, and which ought
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him there.
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any.
thing of the kind," he replied, " until yon are quite
sure the place is ours ; and remember that we may
be in the place one hour, and out of it tne next.
The first half of the detachment, consisting of
200 infantry and an advanced guard of cavalry, had
alreadyehonz
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the frontier by Captain
T
ho served with Horodycki
in Hungary, and who has probably many friends in
England, as he was attached to the British Head-
patters during the Crimean war. Capt. Jagninski,
another of Horodycki's comrades in Hungary, took
charge of the second half, and was accompanied by
Horodycki and Synkiewicz. The rearguard (ea_
vai
hours afterwards, under the
d
olish officer, late of the Russian
rlereyt)ionfollowed
of
a some
Polish
army. The night which, like the first night of the
march had been brilliantly beautiful until 10 o'clock,
suddenly darkened, just as the detachment began to
croos—and the rearguard went over the frontier in
the midst of thunder, lightning, and such torrents
of rain that after the lapse of a minute the dense
wood afforded no protection whatever against it-
The last man to leave was an enterprising and watch-
ful Hungarian servant, who had brought nothing
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kamen (a towne about six miles distant) had found
or
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through the position of the camp, and would be in the
wood goon after daylight. It was now getting 00
morning, towards 3 in thetrning, but still too dark to ride,
slush,walk, for there was no footpath
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the wood from time to time that their proceedings
became particularly objectionable. At last daylight
got into peasants' carts and were
towards the village of Nakwasha.
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ley

After us came two carts,eoutaining the nearly lifeless
bodies of two poor fellows who had sank under the
fatigue of 24 hours' nearly incessant marching. We
had not proceeded far when a horse without a rider
came galloping out of the wood. Next came one of
the mounted guides, with the news that the rear-
guard had been fired upon, charged, and routed by
the Cossacks. He was told that be lied, but persisted
in his statement, which turned out to be true.
At Nakwasha we wrung the water out of our
clothes, and then made by a roundabout road for
Brody to seek the detachment of Wysocki, which,
however, had already crossed the frontier, and was,
we were assure4l,in actual possession of Radziwilow.
How this news turned out to be utterly false has
already been told. Horodycki and Wysocki arrived
in the neighbourhood of Radizwilow nearly at the
same time. Both were late, but why Horodycki
advanced at once instead of waiting for Wysocki,
and why Wysocki waited two hours close to the
frontier instead of advancing at once, has not yet
been explained.
It appears now that the 800 Russians who drove
Ilorodycki's detachment out of the town, and com-
pletely routed it, were the same men who afterwards
fought Wysocki and ultimately compelled him to
cross the frontier. The Polish papers estimate the
number of Russians who took part in these battles
at several thousands (from 6,000 upwards). I say
800 on the authority of one of the Polish function-
aries of Radziwilow. A Polish officer in the Aus-
trian battalion, stationed at Brody, thinks there
were 900. An insurgent, who was inside Radzi-
wilow and by the side of Horodycki when he fell,
tells me that the Russians drawn up in the market-
place numbered only 500; but there were many
more concealed in the houses.
Of the officers I have mentioned Horodycki and
Jagninski were killed. Tchorszewski returned
without a wound. Synkiewicz, after two narrow
the
theescapes, had to take refuge in a large pond or lake,
where he remained for eight hours,
whileo
d on
pea-
sants, who had been pursuing him, stood
banks armed with scythes, and ready to murder him
if :he ventured to return to dry land. The major
had swam to a little island of mud, and there re-
mained concealed among rushes and weeds, until he
at last thought of taking his Italian hat off, and
sending it floating along the water. Then the
peasants thought their victim was drowned and
went home to dinner.
The last I heard of the gallant Major Synkiewicz
was from a young lady, not to be confounded with
" Maid Marian") who is among the wounded in
one of the hospitals at Brody. She told me that
she was lying on the ground in a wood, when "an
Italian," to her amazement, came out of the water
close baadynn ,tdt
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infantry

rian outrage," more base, more brutal, and more
bloody in its attendant incidents even than the
ordinary run of such sanguinary butcheries. Mr.
Francis Fit igeraid, the victim itpon coca ion of
the bloodthirsty resentment, miscalled the " wiid
justice of reveege," and so often exhibited by the
small farmers of Ireland, was the owner of a mode-
rate property upon the borders of the two counties
of Cork and Limerick, and within sight of the Kil-
mallach station of the Great Southern and Western
Railway. Among his tenants were two brothers of
the name of Dillane, " comfortable3' men in the
Irish sense of the word, fairly educated for their
station, intelligent, and " respectable." Some paltry
quarrel with respect to the terms of a lease had taken
placebetweenthetnselves and their landlord, Unable
to bring him over to their own view of the question,
they quietly determined to kill him. At the same time
from motives of fear either of the man himself, or
of the possible consequences of their intended crime,
they resolved to carry out their bloody intentions
by proxy. It speaks -volumes for the state of pub-
lic opinion in the district that they had no diffi-
culty in securing the services, for a few pounds, of a
couple of ruffians who, so far from having any cause
of complaint against the man whom they undertook
so readily to murder, had never seen him in their
lives. Armed and primed with instructions by their
employers, they met Mr. Fitzgerald walking near
his own house in company with his newly-married
wife, accosted him, so as to make sure that he was
the right man, and then and there butchered him
upon the Qaeen's highway. There was literally no
pretence even of concealment. The deed was done
in open day, and the assassins leisurely walked off,
leaving their victim writhing on the ground, with
his young wife hanging over him, secure that no
hand would be raised, no tongue would move, to in-
tercept their retreat. For once they were happily
mistaken. One of the actual murderers, Beckham,
was captured red-handed, and underwent the penalty
of his crimes, after having been tried by a special
commission within a month of its perpetration. The
other, Walsh, wandered for some weeks a fugitive
in the mountains which divide the counties of Lime-
rick and Cork, was finally hunted down by the
police, tried at the ensuing assizes, found guilty,
and executed. The terrors of the law were brought
to bear even upon those who had harboured him, and
another " respectable" farmer, named Cooke, paid
a heavy penalty for concealing a murderer from the
police. It remained to discover and render amena-
ble to justice those who, in a moral point of view,
were even more guilty than the wretched instru-
ments of their vengeance. At the spring assizes of
the present year Denis Dillane, the elder of the two
brothers, was arraigned as an accessory before the
fact. Of all other convictions there is none which
it is so difficult to obtain from an Irish jury as one
of this particular character. It is, therefore, greatly
to the credit of the Government, and especially of
the Attorney-General, by whom the prosecution
was conducted, that, without the semblance of any
attempt to strain the law, Denis Dillane was
found guilty by a mixed jury of his countrymen,
and hanged. The last scene of the tragedy has now
just closed. Michael Dillane, the second brother,
had been in custody for upwards of a year
awaiting his trial for the same offence. On
technical grounds it was considered inexpe-
dient to proceed upon the capital charge. To the
indictment upon the minor counts a stout defence
was made, without effect. He also was found guilt'',
and sentenced, after an impressive warning, by Mr.
Justice Keogh to ten years' penal servitude, the
heaviest penalty which could be inflicted by law, and
which eves aggravated by the refusal, under the
previous circumstances of his crime, of leave to the
culprit even to bid adieu to his friends.
HERALD.—We see no reason to doubt the gen-
uineness of the remarkable correspondence between
the King and the Crown Prince of Prussia which
we published a few days since. The Frankfort
newspaper in which it first appeared was estab-
lished to advocate the interests of Prussia in
Southern Germany. It has close relations with the
Prussian liberal party, and in the existing condition
of the Prussian press, is just the vehicle which the
Crown Prince would select—for if the correspond-
ence is genuine it was published with his authority
and by his orders—for the explanation of his opinions
and position. The speech he delivered at Dantzic
shoWed that the Prince wished that the people
should know that he was opposed to the violation
of the constitution ; and actuated by that desire, he
is very likely to have resolved upon giving a fuller
' explanation of the course he has taken and of the
policy he intends to pursue for the future. There
is nothing in the letters themselves to throw any
doubt upon their authenticity ; and until the Prince
gives them a categorical repudiation the public may
fairly accept them as genuine. The publication is
calculated to exert a most happy influence upon the
conflict now waging in Prussia. The people have
known before that the Crown Prince did not ap-
prove the glaring violation of the constitution per-
petrated by the decree against the press, but they
will now learn that he has from the first opposed,
with as much vehemence as was consistent with his
position, the reactionary policy of his father. He
objected to the dismissal of the Anerswald Cabinet,
and was tauntingly told by the King that he had
an opportunity of enacting the usual part of a Crown
Prince. As far as he could he resisted the subse-
quent steps in that downward career upon which
William I. then entered. He made no parade
of opposition, and courted no popularity by censur-
ing his father. But all his influence was employed
to disabuse him of the prejudices and errors instilled
into him by the reactionary clique which surrounds
him. At last, on the 31st of May, before setting
out for his military tour, after the session of the
Landtag had been closed, but before the ordinances
were issued, the Prince addressed his father a firm
but respectful protest against any invasion of the
law. It had no effect. The King signed the de-
cree, which, in one of the letters of this series, he
describes as being in accordance with the charter.
This decree determined the Prince to keep silence
no longer. He addressed a formal protest to the
Cabinet against the decree, which he declared ille-
gal and injurious to the state and the dynasty, ad-
dressing at the same time a private remonstrance
to the King, and a day or two afterwards took the
occasion to make public his sentiments offered by the
speech of the Burgomaster of Dantzic. These pro-
ceedings seem to have brought upon him a severe
rebuke from the King, which provoked a firm and
dignified reply, in which the Prince declares that
he owed it to his conscience and his position to pro
fees in the face of the world his opinion of a mea-
sure which imperils his future and that of his chil-
dren, avows his determination to retract nothing,
and make as courageous a stand for his future as the
King was making for his, but offering at the same
time to resign his commission in the army and his
place in the Council of State, and reside abroad.
The conduct of the Prince, as thus sketched by
himself, was alike prudent and hoe ourable. It must
confirm the Prussians in their hope of a great and
a free future under his government, whilst it will
encourage them to bear with patience and firmness
all the provocations of the King and his advisers.
Irritating as it must be to them to see their consti-
tution shamelessly set at naught, to feel their liberty
of :speech and of writing illegally curtailed, to be
ridden roughshod over by a handful of poor and
proudlordlings and renegade democrats, they wili
have the resolution to bear these annoyances, to
stand upon the legal ground they have chosen, and
refrain from any of those impatient and suicidal out-
bursts to which the soi•disant friends of liberty in
this country taunt them, in the conviction that the
system of illegality cannot last long, and that when it
falls law and liberty will be established upon founda-
tions which cannot be shaken. They know that the
Crown Prince willrrevert to the constitution and
concur in its development as soon as he obtains
power, and they know that they will not have to
wait long for that ; whilst his influence will be con-
tinually directed to the end of bringing the King
back to the constitutional path. And whilst the
exposition of the Prince's feelings and purpose will
inspire the Liberals with encouragement, it will
paralyse the efforts of the reactionary party. These
men will not care to commit themselves irre-
trievably to a cause which they know can, at the
best, triumph only for a few months. They will
not incur the hatred of a people and the scorn of the
man who must in a few years be their King merely
for the small advantages to be gained by the favour
of a monarch who, in the natural course of things,
has not long to live, and who may, for aught they
know, yield in a few days or weeks to the remon-
strances of his wife and son. The leading principle
which actuates King William in all these illiberal
measures has been, as he has often said, and we
have no doubt with perfect truth, his determination
to preserve the imperishable rights of the Crown for
his successors. Might not his Majesty, who as-
suredly would be glad to bo on good terms with his
subjects, and is, as it is known, painfully afflicted
by his present unpopularity, reflect that it is of
very little use taking measures to preserve rights
for a son who has declared his repudiation of those
rights and his resolve to surrender them. The King
is embittering the last years of his life and im-
perilling the interests of his family to preserve for
his son
privileges which the latter desires to see
abandoned. Of what avail is it for the King to
establish the Royal right to dispense with the
constitution if his successor is determined to aban•
don it ? His Majesty may not see the absurdity of
such an effort, but his councillors will. Much as
they may hate liberal institutions, they love their
own safety more. Herr Von Bismark and his col-
leagues do not confine their hopes of life or even of
power to the reign of King William. The emphatic
declaration of the Crown Prince will soot put an
end to the unconstitutional regime.- It will deprive
the King of the instruments necessary for the exe-
cution of his plans.