The Prussian Minister, Manteuffel, has torn the veil off his
master's pretensions to Liberalism. The occasion was a speech upon the address in the Upper Chamber at Berlin. The Minister had been vivaciously attacked by M. Camphauscn, who denounced the " transparent policy" with which Prussia intended to abandon Prussian Liberalism and German Unity. M. Manteuffel replied in a tone of sneering candour : he admitted the " transparent policy "; he declared that Prussia had abandoned the Revolution when she found herself abandoned by crowned allies and supported only by allies like Mazzini. With unblushing effrontery he adopted the old Absolutist trick of clean disregarding facts, and calum- niating those whom he was to betray : he called the Hessian maintenance of the constitution " an official revolution," and by that verbal manoeuvre was able to make up a pretext for the support of the Elector. He also declared that the idea of " dual- ism " was abandoned, and spoke in such terms of the future as to give an air of likelihood to the report that the Russian and Aus- trian Emperors are to meet the Prussian King at Dresden,. and re-
establish the old German Diet. -
The Schleswig-Holstein party haa- given in, and, under 'the compulsion of Austrian and Prussian fetes, made its submission to Denmark. The last act of the Stadtholderate was to " bequeath the vindication of Holstein and Schleswig rights to the care of the German Confederation,"—a testamentary act somewhat resembling a deathbed joke. The documents of capitulation virtually remit the
whole question of the contested constitutional relations between the Danish kingdom ands the'Germaif dakedoti to the status quo ante helium; a solution indeed worthy of a soleitin jocosity. So far as the past is concerned, the Duchies may look on their two years' of bloody strife for Garman rnity as a troubled dream : ilk reference to the future, they and the rest of Germany are again political sleep-walkers for an indefinite period, under the influence of the Muscovite-Austrian nightmare.
