The state of parties in the Prussian Court (where the
prudent old King is desirous of peace before all things, and is inclined to move gently along with the spirit of the age, while the Crown Prince is a fiery, ill-tempered despot) forms the subject of a gossip- ing letter from Berlin published in the Paris newspapers. The following extract from it is worth the perusal, though we cannot aay that its contents are altogether to be relied on.
" Persons who are aware of what is going on at our Court, know that the Xing not only disapproved of the enterprise of Don Carlos, but that he was on the point of recognizing the Government of the Queen Regent. The observa- tions which arrived from St. Petersburg, and the arguments of the Crown Prince, who maintained that Spain belonged of right to Don Carlos, drew from the old King a promise to wait what might arise during the course of events. A communication of these promises was made by the Prince to Don Carlos; but never has the smallest demonstration been made in his favour, neither has any official promise been made. The Consul at Bayonne (who was displaced by Louis Philip for assisting the Carlists), acted under the influence of the im • patient party, and so do the young diplomatie• in foreign countries. The Crown Prince has greatly consoled the family of the ex-King Charles at Prague; but the King, his father, has never deviated an instant from the most frank line of conduct. When the Dutchess of Angouleme, at her last visit to TOplitz in Bohemia, commenced a political subject, with the evident view of sounding the Xing, the latter at once interrupted the conversation, and expressed himself in • manner which cruelly destroyed the hopes of the partisans of Henry the Fifth. biot only has our Monarch become remarkably cool towards his brother-in-law, King William of the Netherlands, but the wife of Prince Albert of Prussia, who fis daughter of the King of the Netherlands, has greatly lost the affections of her father-in-law, in consequence of her tenacious advocacy of the cause of her family ; although such conduct was extremely natural in a daughter. It is false that the Emperor of Russia has been attacked with a disease of the chest : it is the Empress who has been long afflicted with this disorder, which was brought on by her passionate fondness for dancing. News has arrived here of the possibility of French intervention in Spain; and although our Cabinet avoald have preferred a contrary course, yet no impediment to it will come from Berlin. This will not therefore be a motive for a rupture. The Emperor Francis is of the same opinion ; and the Emperor Nicholas, although personally a partisan of Don Carlos, has too much judgment not to feel that be had better confine himself to his good wishes for the Pretender."
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