Daily American organ., 1856-04-08
Prussian Aristocracy.

The Minister of Police, Herr Won .Hnkeldey,
has been killed in duel outside of Berlin, by Herr
Won Rochow. The Times narrates as follows the
cause of the fatal quarrel:
It is wen known that Prussia, like the rest of
Germany, has an order Of mobiles distinguished by
an inordinate pride in their only attribute of supe
rority--their ancient lineage. With little ances-
trail wealth. with no political talents, with claim
to lead or to be respected by the people, some two
or three thousand families pretend to carry back
their pedgrees to period before modern history
began, and to look upon no as noble If nobili-
ty can be proved to have been conferred on his
f.mily at any definite date. ,ga, 4sas
Nothing that Madame de Crequi has chronicled
about the old nobility of France, nothing that has
been handed down about pompous English Peers
in the days of dedicatons and running footmen,
can exceed the stories of absurdity and insolence
related even in the present day Of German aristo
Gratis, whose high quality of being "born entities
them to look down upon the universe. Herr Won
Hinkeldey seems to have been one of that class of
men who have made Prussia a great kingdom. -
The great statesmen who rose up in Prussia at the
hour of her deepest calamity organized the system
of administration which now exists, Centralized
bureaucratic, rigid, pedantic, it may be but, com
pared with what preceded it, and what Herr Won
Rochow, his party, and their organ, the Kreuz
Zeitung wish to restore, it s worthy OF all respect
for 1t is at any rate founded principles Of natu
raj Justice-of equal rights and equal burdens for
all. 1
The Minister of Police was a bold upholder of
the sovereign power, which is in Prussia really
the power of the people. He would carry. out
the law against all classes, and make no excep-
ton in favor of any order which might fancy it.
self privileged. The mobiles and the military were
not to be excluded from the operation of his rnu-
nicipal authority. He appears to have been an
able administrator; he paved and lighted Berlin,
introduced loaging-houses for the poor, fire brig
ade, the electric telegraph, water-works, baths,
and wash houses, and a new system OF employing
criminals proftably. In fact, he was what I'VE
should call in England an able public man. But
these merits were hidden from the eyes Of The
Kreuz Zeitung party, who were always talking of
the days Of Fritz, when q good Prussian hated a
Frenchman, and nobleman was properly respect
ed. The Minister of Police was too reforming for
the party which has through the whole of this war
leant to Russia, and has, by enlisting every preju
dice against the Western nations, obtained in the
chambers and in society q power probably dispro-
portionate to its real strength.
At last the dislike came to deadly fedd. The
clique marked him out for destruction. He was
to be insulted on every OCCASION and forced to
challenge one opponent after another, until he fell
At last he appeared at a carrousei given by some
of the princes and nobility Here Rochow stepped
up to him and told him that the presence of po
lice agent was not required. What need is there
for further detail Hinkeldey was obliged to cha-
lenge his inexorable defamer. He went home,
sent in his resignation, made his WILL arranged his
papers, wrote his last letters and then repaired to
the field 1t is said he did not know how TO fire
pistol His antagonist was skilful enough, and had
chosen the pistol as his weapon. Rochow walked
up TO the "barriere" and shot the Minister dead.