The hew German Press Law appears to be a more
liberal one
than we imagined. According to the Berlin correspondent of the Times, no paper in Germany mat now he -seized preventively except-When the police assert that the day's edition is dangerous,. and the legality of their .aetion =let be proved before a judge within.forty-eight hours of seizure. Moreover, all Press offences are for the future to be triedly the stperior civil courts, composed of five learned judges. Moreover, the relief from taxation is re- garded as a very great boon. All the great German papers are so cheap that the tax, sometimes as much as /4,000 a year, will remain in the pocket of the proprietor, who, it is asserted, will use it to improve his paper. He may, but the con- servatism of successful papers as to details of management is very curious. Nothing, we suppose, would induce the Times to publish its domestic occurrences alphabetically instead of chrono- logically, or to omit its nonsensical averages of longevity, or even to leave out that most unintelligible of all public announcements —" Despatches have been sent today to Heligoland, Caffraria, and Lagos."
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