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According to the last accounts it seems as if there
was to be no war, at least for the present, between
France and Prussia. The EMPEROR has received
in private audience the Prussian Ambassador at
Paris, and the latter delivered the reply of the
Prussian Cabinet to the French Note, which ex-
pressed a wish that the French frontier might be
rectified. The Prussian Government has declared
any such rectification to be inadmissible. It is said
that in reply to this his MAJESTY stated that he had
expressed that wish in order to satisfy the public
opinion of France. He considered such a wish to
be just, but acknowledged the fairness of the argu-
ment brought forward by the Prussian Cabinet,
and added that the good relations between Prussia
and France should not be disturbed. All we can
say is that it is not much in accordance with the
usual course pursued by the EMPEROR thus to
agree with every one, right and left, and to have no
opinion of his own. If the report here mentioned
convey a strictly true account of what passed the
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for the declaration of the semi-official Provincial
Correspondence, that the EMPEROR has always
shown himself opposed to steps calculated to dis-
turb friendly relations with Prussia, it is quite ridi-
culous, and the notion of the EMPEROR being deter-
mined not to interfere with the national development
of Germany is equally untrue. What difference
can it make to the EMPEROR whether Prussia is
able to carry out all her extreme views of annexa-
tion except so far as he thinks it interferes with the
interests of France? It is quite out of character to
make such a fuss about the claims of Berlin and to
expect that all the world is to bow to its behests.
We admit that just now by a fortuitous combina-
tion of circumstances the advantages of the game
seem to be on the side of Prussia, and that the star of
BISM ARC K is in the ascendant,but we have not yet seen
the end of the game, and are not therefore justified
in deciding on the wham, It is not at all likely