Prince, Bismarck clearly intends to keep North Schleswig, though the
Treaty of Prague contains a clause binding him to take a plebiscite there before final annexation. He told Deputy Kryger, who represents North Schleswig, that he could hold him out no hope ; that the clause was inserted by the Emperor Napoleon, and not by Austria, which cared nothing about. it ; and that whatever his' own views, he must obey the view of the 40,000,000 of people behind him. He spoke with perfect frankness and without acerbity, declaring that Herr Kryger was strictly within his duty ; but the Deputy seems to have felt, as we do, that the frankness was more fatal• than ferocity. Prince Bis- marck also observed that concession would encourage the Polish nationalists, and might have added that it would bring some faint hope even to Alsace and Lorraine. The Crown Prince of Ger- many has, nevertheless, been received with friendly courtesy in
openhagen, the people declining to see embodied Germany in her foremost Prince. That is wise as well as generous, and shows how worthy the Danes are of the justice they never get.
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