The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-01-04
,ey dispersed in moody silence, and lem Manleui.

they dispersed in moody silence, and left Manteuf-
fel mi ster of the field.
The Parliament being disposed Of, the next move
In the political game will be the "free conferences"
which are to be held at Dresden, and will COM
mence about the 18th Of this month. Whether hey
will lead TO detintve settlement Of the German
question is still problematcal Many people are OF
opinion that Austria will be satisfied with nothing
less than the complete subjugationl OF Prussia,
and that all the concessions of the latter will only
increase the arrogance OF her naughty rival. The
Of the young emperor, and Saxony is casting long
ing eye at the provinces torn from her by Prussia
at the treaty Of Vienna There is a general inn
preston that hostiles are only postponed, and that
in a short time Prussia will be forced into war,
which she has evaded for the moment at the ex-
pense of her honor and dignity Meanwhile the
immense armies kept up at both sides are exhaust
ing the resources Of the country and the towns
and villages are filled with soldiers, who are quar-
tered upon the inhabitants, and add to the burthens
and losses occasicned by the complete stagnation
of business and the depreciation of all kinds of pro-
perry
gloomy and dsheartening The police is omnipo-
tent, and the very name of personal liberty will
soon be unknown. The press is subjected to the
strctest surveillance, and any writer who ventures
to criticse the actions of the COVE ment runs the
risk of exile or imprisonment. The editor of the
Constitutional Gasette, the organ Of the moderate
liberals, expelled from Berlin, few days since,
and that party, whose assistance during the mo.
mentous crisis of November, 1913, alone enabled
the present ministry to Withstand the assaults of
the democracy, is now the object of their unrelent
ing persecution. To give you an instance of the
interference of the poliae in the most ordinary con-
Germs of social life, will only quite the following
faet-A few weeks ago, citizen of Berlin had a
child born to him, which he wished to be baptized
by the names Of Waldeck Jacoby, in honor of the
leaders of the democratic party, whose trial and
honorable acqultal mentioned to you this time
twelve month. The officiating clergyman refused
TO chris,en the child by these names, alleging that
they not TO be found in the calendar, and the
police informed the parents that they must select
some other appellalion for the child. The
father demurred, and being apprehensive that the
police would proceed to violence, he sent the mo-
Their and infant TO village some distance from the
city gensdarme was Immediately dispatched in
pursuit of them, who, after some difficulty, sue
ceeded in discovering the objects of his search, and
Selling upon the child, carried off to church, and
bad it baptized by some name of his own selection.
This is only slight specimen of the outrages that
continually occurring; and you may ina CINE the
curses, 'not loud but deep, that uttered by the
victims of such petty tyranny. For the present the
strong hand power suppresses all outward signs of
discomfort; but the time will surely come when the
wrongs of an injured people will be avenged on the
heads of their oppressors A. B.