New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-28
PRUSSIA.
PUBLIC FEELING IN BERLIN.

From Our Own Correspondent.
BERLIN, April 10, 1860.
If an intelligent foreigner who had visited Berlin
but Two months ago and then left it were now to
return to the metropolis of intelligence" the thor
oueh change in the pbysiognomy, tone and temper,
an, istr liebea Ber;iHer" (ot my beloved Bsrners)
could not fail TO srike bis mental eye. Sail, soma
months age small talk obtsDed in all the ranks of the
metropolitan society. People congratulated each
other, in susdaed accents, on the nightmare Of de-
cDnal reaction having at last ceased to crush their
bTalDs-tbat the worst was over. This silly theme
was souoded TO oil keys, and the unavoidable alter
thought that tho change had been brought about not
BY any vigorous AID healthy effort on the part Of the
PIussisn subjects, but rather BY the sckly affection
Of the Prussiaa kpg'- head; that the change waS
ID. refore the work of nature not the deed Of maa
This uncomfortable afterthought falsifed even the
first joys Of the new era triumphantly announced BY
the duly deadly pens of the Berlin daily press.
Such was the pusiilanmity prevailing that, not to
irgbteD the Prince Regent out Of his new tangled
Liberalism, all the candidates in the general election
TO the Second Chamber were put to this simple test:
bid they profess confidence in the HOhenzollerr
Cabinet installed by The P,ince Regent Were
their names in no way obnoxious TO the mild LIBERAL
i'm of The new Government Instead of men to
take up the grievances Of the country, there were
wanted bottle holders with ready-cut votes for the
Cabinet. hat the new Cabinet actually did not
touch the bureaucratic and police shackes forged by
its predecessors while its very professions OF faith
were characterized by weak duplicity, shy reserve,
and equiyOca reticence-these facts were hood
winhe0; and it wss furthermore proclaimed a pa.
triotic duty to hoodwnk them. An the opposition
papers, whether styling themselves Constitutional
or Democratic, turned downright Ministerial After
the peace of VillsfIanca, when Herr con ScAleinr,
the Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs, published
sort OF Blue Book on the Italian war when his
dispatches, true patterns Of weakninded yerbosity,
showed him up the worthy successor of the men who
in the last century, had concluded the peace Of
Basic, and in this century, had prepared the catas-
trOphe of J,na--when we saw him humby receiv-
ing lessons of constitute )nasm the part of Little
Johnny, tie British Jack-of-aO- Trades crouchlng
in the dust before Prince Gorchakon, exc changing
bIets.doaz with the Man of December, supercil-
iously irownng upon bis Austrian colleague, to be
finally kicked by all his correspondents-even then
the prussian press and our Berlin Liberals worked
the mseyes into real ts OF enthusiasm with respect
TO the superhuman wisdom evinced by the Prusslan
government which, not content with doing nothing
itself, had contrived TO preclude Germany from all
action. Soon after there took place at Brsslau .
meeting between the Russian Car and Gorcha.
koif ON The one side, and the Prince hegens
with his Ministerial satellites on the other.
A new deed of embodiment of Prussia to her
Muscovite neiehbor was duly sgned--the int, but
necessary resus this Of the peace Of Villairancas
Even in 1914 such an event would have aroused .
torn of opposition throughout the country. Nowt
was extolled an earnest of farseeing statecraf1
The n,hlsm of the Prince Regents Foreign
Policy coupled with the continuance Of tho Old reac-
tiouary system of mingled ieudalsm and cnreadcrat-
ism, which was iorsaken in name only, seemed 70
our friends the Berlin Liberals, and the Prgsslan
press OF all colors save the special organs OF the CID
Camarila, sufficient reasons to claim the imperial
crown of little Germany chat ia TO say, Germany
minus German Austria), for tho representative OF
the Prusssn dynasty IL is difficult to find in the
records of history similar piece Of judicial blind
ness but We remember that after the battle of Aus
terlitz, Prussia also crowed for some daysl0n her