A pamphlet has appeared at Berlin, called " Pro Nihilo,"
con- taining many of the letters produced at Count Arnim's trial. They are full of bitter complaints from Prince Bismarck against the Count for not supporting M. Thiers, for representing him to the Emperor as dangerous to the Monarchical principle in Europe, thus indisposing the Emperor to Bismarck's advice, and for, intriguing with the Empress against the Chancellor. The complaints are in form those of a very irritable and somewhat small-minded politician, but there-seems to be a serious basis to them. PrincC. Bismarck wished to support M. Thiers, and directed Come' Arnim to support him, and the Ambassador, relying on Imperial favour, did not do it. That was a grave failure, only hidden by the rather absurd charge that he defended his views in letters to his master and the Empress. Since when have the Hohenzollerns
renounced the right to guide their own foreign policy, or to keep up correspondence with any of their servants ?
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