Count Arnim, till quite lately the German ambassador at Paris,
and formerly Prince Bismarck's envoy at Rome, has evidently thrown over-the ecclesiastical policy of his former chief. In a letter just published to Dr. Dbllinger, he not only says that if the proper diplomatic proceedings had been taken before the opening of the Council, the Pope would have resembled" the hero who went forth to conquer the world, but returned home- because it began to rain " ; but he implies severe blame- of what is now being done :—" If they had succeeded in choking in the germ the prolific weeds which have been fostered by the Council, we should not now be entangled in an incomprehensible quag- mire, which brings once more into question that which seemed to have become long ago the common good of Christianity,"—that is, we suppose, the principle of toleration. Clearly Count Arnim is not likely to serve Prince Bismarck again.
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