, 1865-02-07

Budget of 1866. Bills will also be ubmitted
with reference to the military expenses, and to
that favourite chimara of German Liberalism,
the extension of the naval power of Prussia.
There is to be also a cana to connect the Ger
man Ocean with the Baltic, and a modification
of the commercial treaty between Prussia and
France.
No really patriotic Prussian can, we think,
possibly object 20 this project and measures
They are the very things to which the atten-
ton Of Parliament ought to be directed, the
very questions the settlement of which is, above
all things, expedient and necessary for the good
of the State and the people. But in what sense
will they be settled-what answer is the Prus-
sian Parliament prepared to give to the ques-
tons about to be proposed to it by NJ. Bisma~k
He has succeeded in bullying Germany all
round he has cajoled and outwitted Austria,
trampled on Saxony and Hanover, discarded
his recent puppet the Duke Of Augustenburg,
and lent himself, unl, SIS he is much belied Ivy
the opinion Of Germany, to the widest schemes
Of Prussian ambition and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The
question is, will The PrussiaD Parliament lie SO
blind as to surrender such relics and scraps Of
liberty as this Minister has left it still to dis
pose of? If the Crown asks it for money, will
it grant the request without enforcing those
conditions on which altna money ought to be
granted Will it allow It's If TO be told, in the
same breath. that the Grown asks it to assist it
in providing funds, and that wha ever it does
not chose to provide the Crown is prepared to
raise by its own power and the Inherent virtue
of its prerogative? Will it allow its King or his
Minister to address it in the language Of the
sons of Eli, "Give it me, or, if not, | will take it
by force :" The Parliament is, it is said, not
to be asked for a loan it is expected to impose
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the property Of the country-wilI it suffer itself
to be cajoled and inundated into giving away
that money with which it is intrusted by its
constituents, without securing in the most bind
ing and authentic form that it shall be applied
for such purposes and in such manner only as it
may direct?
it may be and probably will be urged upon it
that The present needs Of the PruSsian Crown
are tho result Of a policy ia which the Parlia-
ment is just as deeply implicated as the Grown
itself. Whatever may have been the case with
regard to The constitutional questions Of two
years ago, there is no doubt that in all his vio-
lence, all his injustice, and all bis aggression NJ.
Bismark has been the faithful representative of
the Prussian Parliament and people, just as in
his unjust and cruel wars against France our
Edward III. fully embodied the feelings and
prejudices of his subjects. But that completely
did not prevent the Parliament of Edward III
from turning to account the prodigality which
it had itself stimulated, and selling to its King
at the very highest price that could be got the
subsidies which he raised in order to give effect
to its own wishes. 1t is right that Sovereigns
should be taught that when they constitute
themselves revolutionary leaders they must ac-
cept all the burdensome as we'll as all the brill
liant and attractive incidents of the position,
and that they cannot one minute give the reins
to popular passion, and the next intrench them
selves within the traditions and prerogatives of
Divine right and absolute and unfettered dis
erection.
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