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London, England, 1860-04-17 00:00:00

be cuttingly sarcastic—" I cannot disguise from you,
Monsieur le Comte, the painful impression which
the publication of that document has produced on
my mind." We may here observe, en passant, that
it is fast becoming in the science, or art, or profes-
sion of dipirni.r-5, a flling (rite intekrable, 11 -le re-
fined distinctions which are perpetually being
drawn of late between what is held to be public or
official, and what is, on the contrary (like Mr
PECKSNIFF'S drunken repetition of his ad-
vertisement, in a whisper, to Mrs. TODGER),
"strictly private and confidential." We hold
this incessant reference to the privacy
and confidence of diplomacy to be one among the
meanest and paltriest of its devices. It is a refer-
ence which, if it continue much longer to be tole-
rated thus upon any and every occasion, must in-
volve diplomacy in its last possible entanglement,
and reduce it to its lowest depth of degradation.
To return, however, to the Ist of April despatch of
Baron SCHLEINITZ and its real significance or in-
significance, we find that, in his despatch, the
Minister immediately goes on to remark, "Never-
theless, I should willingly have abstained from
referring to this incident, if it had not afforded to
the German and foreign press the pretext for a
host of false appreciations and of commentaries,
more or less malevolent." The Minister adds,
with a parade of individual magnanimity, "If
what is said were only attacks against me per-
sonally, I might easily dispense with any retro-
spective discussion ; but, as the attempt has been
made to deduce from the expressions which I
employed to the Prince DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE
erroneous conclusions with regard to the policy of
Prussia, I believe that I have not the right to
allow by too long a silence Lord BLOOMFIELD'S
despatch to acquire the value of a historical do-
cument." Hence, he writes, "It is with regret,
but in order to accomplish a rigorous duty, that I
address to you, Monsieur le Comte, the following
observations with •the double object of stating
facts precisely, and of expressing a wish as regards
the future." We are then called upon as pointedly
as Queen GERTRUDE was by HAMLET, in the
presence of the contrasted portraits of her two
royal husbands —to " look upon this pic-
ture and on that !" The Foreign Minister
of Prussia first cites the account to the
accuracy of which he takes exception. He
writes—" Lord BC,OO3IFIELD relates in these terms
what I said to the Minister of France .—‘ Baron
SCH.LEINITZ seems to have also observed to the
French Minister that the present Government of
Prussia had been the means of restraining the vio-
lent feeling which had been excited in Germany by
the war in Italy, and to have made themselves un-
popular by so doing ; and that on the question of
Savoy it must be considered, because they have re-
mained silent up to the present moment, that this
meant indifference ; for they should view this ab-
sorption with the greatest distrust." Appending
the following words to the quotation by way of corn.
mentary, " I believe that these terms do not ren-
der with all the precision desirable what I said to
the Prince DE LA Toun D'AUVERGNE." Baron
SCHLEINITZ then gives his own version of his own
assurances : he writes—" I said to the Minister of
France that the Cabinet of his Royal Highness
the Prince Regent, in relying on the
assurances of the French Cabinet that France would
seek no aggrandisement, had exposed itself to the
bitter reproaches of part of Germany ; that in con-
quence it must be painfully affected by the contra-
diction which the project in question appeared to
give to its confidence ; and that though having up
to that time maintained silence on the affair of
Savoy, it could not the less feel regret at that pro-
ject, which, in its opinion, contained the germ of
grave complications." The rest of the despatch—
r about half of the entire document—is made up of
• triumphant comments upon the extraordinary dis-
crepancy apparent between these two accounts of
the same occurrences, or rather of the same assur-
ances. To the discernment of the English public
however, we leave the discovery of this said dis-
crepancy. To our readers we leave the task of
weighing in the balance this six and this HALF- A -
DOZ EN, the problematic pastime of pronouncing
accurately—

" What all this difference can be
'Twixt Tweedledura and Tweedledee I"

His Excellency the Sardinian Minister corn es to
town to-day, from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Pal-
merston at Brocket Hall.

The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton and family
will return to Hamilton House to-morrow, from Paris.

The Marquis of Salisbury came to town yester-
day from Liverpool, and left in the afternoon for Hatfield.
Her ladyship will return to London on Thursday, from
visiting the Earl and Countess Delawerr at Buckhurst
Park, Sussex.

The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith are expected
in town on Thursday, from Boughton House, Northamp-

onshire.

The Earl and Countess of Eglinton have returned
to Grillon's Clarendon Hotel, Albermarlo-street.

Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday
from Brocket Hall.

Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn have left Gol-
den Grove, South Wales, for Waresley, Huntingdonshire,
on a visit to the Hon. Octavius and Lady Caroline Dun-

combe.

Lord Ravensworth and family have arrived at
his lordship's residence, Percy -cross, Fulham, from Ravens-
worth Castle.

The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Stonor arrived
in Hertford-street, yesterday, for the season, from Stonor
Park, Oxfordshire.

Sir William and Lady Jolliffe arrived at their
residence, in Stratton-street, yesterday, from Merstham
House, Reigate, for the season.

We learn from Harwich that at a meeting of
some of the Liberal electors who were desirous of testing
the comparative popularity of the three Liberal candidates,
the following was the result of a ballot :—Thompson, 41;
Brett, 36 ; Chambers, 11.
INSTALLATION OF LORD BROUGHAM AS CHAN-
CELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—We are
authorised to state that Lord Brougham will be installed as
Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh on Wednesday,
the 16th of May.—Scotsman.
ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENT.—The Queen has
been pleased to appoint the Rev. Wm. Goode, Rector of
St. Margaret, Lothbury, to the Deanery of Ripon, in the
room of the Rev. Thomas Gamier, now Dean of Lincoln.

A French paper manufacturer has invented a new
pack of playing cards ; each card represents some remark•
able fact connected with the history of Napoleon I. or of
Napoleon 111. All the figures are of the same period, the
costume is perfect, and remarkable for the execution and
the brilliancy of the colours. The pack of cards is called
Cartes de l'Ere Imperiale. In place of kings there aro four
emperors, including the Prince Imperial; four empresses,
including the Empress-Mother • and in place of knaves,
four Bonapartes, brothers of Napoleon I. For aces there
are four islands, viz., Martinique (where the Empress Jo-
sephine was born), the islands of St. Croix, Elba, and St.
Helena.

FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The appearance of the
foreign exchanges, according
Con-
tinent received yesterday,t
any period during i in%
et hdemaiddvie
decidedly
sy
favourablefrom the
thanan inevitable result ofe I
created by the recent abortive past two or three years. This is
houses. At Paris the Bankltwe
at
.e artificial scarcity of money
rate is only'
proceedings of the discount
there is a plentiful supply 3} per cant., and
in the open market at 3 per cent.
At Amsterdam also the charge rib,:e is but 3 per cent., while at
low as 2 per cent. Of
course,ilamhu rtghearnedfoFrer,anlakrfgoert
quantities
tltr!
inties4will be attracted here.
guch pera cent. for deposits,
1 has been given
•Our joint stock banks are offend
as
of a wee tirrfotleo
bdoaryosa.liseAd
ya.nesclebivd
at the ef,)r discountloans hwoiuths ens
oat
transmit\Ve their
soon there-
clear profit at the rate of 2 per cent. will lere
atlolefoorrereigspnohnoduensetss wonhothmi:yside.floating capi-
btayl
fore, have more than enough for all oar requirements,
the sole result of the locking-up process, lleo and
dis-
grace involved in it, will be that its concocteyrs will l
certain amount of interest, which will find its way tooenthae
pockets of more sagacious money-dealers in France,. Ger •
many, and Holland.
A telegram from Charleston states that.during a
legitimate trading voyage on the coast of Africa the brig
Jehossee was overhauled and taken forcible possession of
by a British vessel of war, and the officers and crew treated
with gross indignity.
LIVERPOOL, Monday.--The Canadian Royal Mail
Steamship Company have chartered the Cunard Company's
new screw steamship Palestine, and intend to despatch her
with the mails,&e., for Quebec on the 16th of May next.
GOLD DISCOVERED AT NELSON, NEW ZEALAND.
—The New Zealand _London _Examiner states that gold has
been discovered at the river Bul:e-, on the west coast of the
province, and is likely to prove very valushic,