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BISMARCK-ARNIM. Wortlaut der biftorifchen GCorrefpoaden;. Gin verwicelter Fedcerfrieg, Diplomatifhe Finefje des aehuten Jahrhunderts, Neun- Angenehue Flegeleien und ariftotratijisje Grobbeiten. ; Villow und Arnim Haben beide Regt Wir find te dev angenehinen Lage unieren Nefern der Wortlaut de& hiftorifdjen Brief- wedjels gwifden Biilow nnd Arnim vorlegen zu tonnen, BViilow an Arnim, Berlin, 6. Guli 1871. Nadjdem Cw. Excellenz; urd) Bermittlung des Grafen von Arnim-Sdlagenthin im Ganjer 14 GErlaffe und Concepte von Veridjten, die dem Archive der laijerliden Botfdhaft in Paris entnommen waren, hier guriidgefandt haben, ift von dem faiferliden Botidajter Fiirften Hohen- Lohe die abjcjriftlic) antiegende Lifte der nad) Bergleidhung der Nummern im BotfdAfts Four- nal dajelbft nicht vorhandenen amttlidjen Sdhrift- fide cingereidjt worden, Hieraus ergiebt fic), baf nod cine bedentende Sahl von politifejen Er- laffen und Beridjten ans den Sahren 1872— 1874, fo wie andcre auf den Gejdjaftstreis der Dortigen Diijfiow besiighidjen Mittheilungen iiber- Haupt nidjt im Bournale der Botfdhaft einge- tragen und im Urdiv nicht mehr anfzufinden aft. Die Snbhaltsangaben find, foreit e3 nod geidjehen founte, aus den bicjigen Regiftraturen ergdngt worden, Die Verantwortung fiber den Gerbleib diejer Scriftftiide trifft in erfter Yinie felbjtverfttindlid) den bisherigen Chef der BVotfdjaft. Ew. Excellenz fordere id) daber auf gefalligh fic) amtlich dariiber gu dufern | was Bhnen iiber da8 Fehlen diefer widtigen Séyviftftiice betannt ift, eventuell umgehend die- jenigen unter den im antiegenden Sergeidjniffe | aufgefiihrten Piecen, weldje fic) etwa nod) in Shren Hinden befinden, dem Auswartigen Umte guriicuftetlen. Sn Veriretung des Reidstanglers. v. Bitlow, Geiner GEycelleng dem fdniglichen wirkicen: Geheimen Bath Herm Arcnim, Arnim an Bitlow. Arnim’s lange und erjdipjende Antwort, in der er fid) weigert die vom Auswirtigen Amte geforderte offiziclle Auseinanderjesung gu Ieiften, weil ex nidt mehr in dienftliden Beziehungen gum angler ftehe, ift fdjou im ,Qerald” ver- Sffentlidjt worden. Siilow an Arnim. Berlin, 5, Augnft 1974, Ew. Excellenz unterm 21. v. Monat als Pri- vatidjreiben an den ergebenft unterjeidjneten Staats-Setretdr geridjtete gefillige Erwidering } auf den diesjeitigen Erlaf} vom 6. Suli, hat nur | alg ein amtlides Sdreiben entgegen genonmmen und behandelt werden tinnen, Wenn udmlidh Ew. Excellens davon. ausgehen, dah Ihre VBeziehungen gum Answirtigen Amite vollftiindig gelift feien, fo entfpridjt dieje Mn. nahme nidjt dem Reicsbeamten-Gejes, deffen Anwendbarteit fix dicfe Frage felOftuerftindtich aft, und iiberdies von Cw. Excelleny ausoriidlicy eingeréinmt wird, Arnim’s Verpflidtung, Ew. Exeellens find durd) Allerhsdjte Order, vom 15, Mai d. S., einftrvcilen in den Ruheftand verjetst, hiernad) aljo, bet Gerluft Shres Wartee geldes, verpjlicjtet ein Ahnen itbertragencs Reichsamt unter den gefetstidjen Borausjesungen angunehinen. Bis jene im Reichsamt unter einem andern Reffort Alerhidhft dbertragen oder Shre Entlaffung ans dem Reidhsdienft Alerhsdhft | verjiigt wird, verbleiben Civ. Excetfen; was Sie bis gur Verjesung in den ubheftand waren, Veemter des Answiirtigen mts, fomit deffen amtlidjer Unffidt und Disciplinargewalt unter: geben. Auch wenn Gr. Exeellenz nidjt das bei Berjegung in den RuheRand gejeslide Warte- geld angenommen oder weiter erheben wollten, wiirde in Shren amtliden Begiehungen gum Answartigen Amte eine Aenderung nidjt einge- treten fein, weldje rociter ginge, als das in Ge- Mapheit ANerhidfter Beftimmung des Uuswir- tigen Umts, cinftweilen auf Ew. Excellen; Dienfte verjzidhtet ift. Gechorjam mung ,Sind.” Dicie Anffaffung der Stellung eines in den Ruheftand verjesten Reidsbeamten ift feit Cre hf de6 Reidsbeamten Gejeses in Theorie umd Praxis anertannt und durd das Gefets felbft, hon durdy die vor Cry? Excetleng fetbft citirten & 84—118, iiber jeden Zweifel erhaben, ware Vegteres mdglic fo twiirde § 119 diefetbe bejeitigen, drein Reidhebcamter nicht anger Begiehunggn der Rehorde feintann welder er disciplinarifd) unter- flit iff. Gr. Excelieny wollen ferner exrwigen, dif die $$ 29-31 des mafqebenden Gefeyes diein Muhefland verjetsten Reichsbeamten ,,als Beam- tor” in den mannigfadfien Begiehungen aus- diicligh anerfennen. Das Gefen, Andere Beamte aber, ,als Reidsbeamte,” fennt died Gejey fo wenig als Beamte ohne cine derfelben untergeordnete, Sr. Majeftit dem sai- fer verantwortlidje Behirde, Wenn Ew. Excel. feng audenten, dag Sie ohne Zwifden-Behirde Mediglidh gur Dispojition doe6 RKaijers, unfeves Orafen von} NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. Wlergnadighen Germ ftdnden, fo wird eine nd- Here Priifung der Reidsverfaffung, wie derjeni- Gen des RKinigreidhs Preufjen, Sie dberzeugen dai jeder Beamte punddft dem vevantwortliden Minifter, begiehungsweije dem Reidstangler, ver- faffungsmifig unterftellt iff, Die Behirde aber, au welder der in Ruheftand verfepte Beamte folde Begiehungen behalt, ift und bleibt, bis eine Allerhsdhfte Order anderweitig verjiigt, die fril- here Behdrde des Beamten, Nod eine Dofe. Das Answartige Amt bedauert hinjufiigen gu miiffen, daf} nod ein anbderer Grund vorliegt, ans welder Ew. Excelleng redjtlid) behindert find Shre Unabhangigheit, alS durd das frithere Dienftverhiltnif, nicht bejdyrantt gu betradjten. Gw. Excellens haben e6 midjt fir erforderlich evadytet, beim Verlaffen der Shnen anvertranten Botfdhay, deren Archive dem’ interminiftifdjen Herrn Gefshaftstviger gu tibergeben, und dabei ju conjtatiren, dafx diefelben in pflidjtmipiger Vollftdndigteit und Ordmmg von Shnew abge- liefert wurde ; Ew. Excelleng bleiben fomit fiir die Bollfttindigteit dex Bhnen int Allerhidfter "Dienft anvertraut gewefenen Ardjivatien dent "Auswartigen Amte, nad) aligemeinen Redhts- | grundfigen, verantiortlid, Wenn mm Ew. Ercelleng gwar in Folge dev bet der erften Ent- decking deS Fehlens widtiger Uitenjtiide an Sie ergangenen Aufforderung die damals benaunten ausgeliefert, and) jest wieder einige vermifite Concepte guriictgeftellt haben, uunmehr aber die VBehauptung aujftellen, dah die politijdjen Cr- laffe Nos. 224, 239, 271, 281 von 1872 ; Nos. 90, 102, 103,104 pon 1873 und Nos, 2, 6, 14, 33, 68, 69, 74, 93, 193 von 1874 alg Perfonatacten ihr Cigenthum fein, fo ift weder dieje Behauptung, mod) diejenige, dah eventualiter Hieriiber die Civilgerichte gu entfdjeiden haben, mit den mafigebenden Ge- | fetsem vereinbar. Was gu den Beftandtheilen eines Reidjsardives gehirt, wird nie Zrweifel entitehen, nidjt der Beantte dem dafjelbe anver- traut war, fonder Ddiejenige Oberbehirde gu entfdjeiden haben, weldje derfelbe fiir feine Wintsfiihrung verantwortlid) war und bleibt. Sayritftiie welde in amtlider Verantaffung und Form den Fuhalt einer amtlide Verhialtniffe } und Pflidjten beriihrende Correfpondens bilden, find nidjt Perfonad fondern amtlidje WActen, fomit | Beftandtheile des Ardhivs, Sm vorfiegenden Falle tft dieje Cigenidjaft um | fo weniger ju beftreiten, als die eben anfgefiihrten Stiice mumevirt find, d. h. fiir Whfender und Empjiinger in gegebener Reihefolge ale amtlich | begeichnet fird. Es wird immer beffer. Diefe Betradtungen find fo einfad), dah das | Unswirtige Amt fitr jest anf die von Ew. Ex celleng angefithrien Motive nidjt eingeht, und nur bemertet daf einem Mifftonsdef unter Um- | ftdnden geftattet fein mag eingelne Actenftiice ibver politijdyen oder anderweitigen Befdyaffenheit halber gu fecretiven, dieje BefuguifR aber nicht Tanger danert als, feine fficielle Cigen{daft, fomit dem Stellvertreter oder Nadjfolger bei Verlesnng amtligher Pflidjt das gefammte Archiv abguiiefern ift. Wenn nun in der Regi- | ftratur des Anuswartigen Wmts, refpective der BotiGhaft in Paris und den Ausfagen der betref- j fenden Beamten nadjgeriejen werden fann, \ iibrigens theilweife von Ew. Exceellen; felbft ein- | geviiumt wird, daf die nod) feblenden Papiere dem | Urdjive der Votfhaft entnommen oder gar nidt | sugeftellt find, fo werden Ew. Excellens bei naiherer Erwiigung midjt vertennen, dak Shr deéfalliges Verhalten geeiguet ijt nidjt nur ein disciplinari- {ches fondern aud) ein ftrafridjtlidjes Verfahren nadh fig) gu jiehen. Das Disciplinar-Berfahren. Was cine Erirterung auf dem Wege des Civil Prozeffes angeht, fo ergeben die nad) § 19 des Reichebeamten Gefeyes in vorliegendem Fale maafgebende BVoridjriften des prenfijden Rechts liber die Concepte dev Geridts- und Berwalt- | ungs-Behirde, dafi dte Cognition den, fraglidjen | Scriftftiiden unbedingt ausgefdlofen ift. Dage- gen begriindet fdjon die Vorenthaltung, refpective Gntnahme, amtlidjer Uctenftiide aus dem Ar- dive der Gotjdjaft, wie foldyes hier vorliegt und uneradhtet amilidjer Wufforderung fortgefest | wird, die Einfeitung de8 im Reidjsbeamten Ge- jets vorgejdjricbene, and) gegen den in Rufeftand verjesien Beamten gulajfige Disciplinar-Berfah- ven, Anferdeut ijt nad) der Beftimmung des preufifdjen Strafgeiey-Budjes (Seite 345) ein Veamter ftrafbar welder cine ihm amtlid) an- vertraute Urtunde bet Seite fcjafft; nad) § 350 went er Geld oder andere Sadjen unterfejlagt. | YUuch wenn es fraglid) fein follte ob die Depefdjen und Actenftiide einer Gefandtihaft, Urtunden in | der tedhnifdjen Bedeutung des Worts fein (was das | Toniglich preufifdye Obertribunal annimut), fo tann e8 nad) §§ 133 und 246 des genannten Ge- fepbicyes nidt besrwcifelt werden, dag jeder Gegen- ftand der cinem Beamten anvertraut war ju den- jemigen gehirt deren Unterfdylagung ftrafbar madyt. Gin berber Shing. Benn aljo die Strafbarteit der Beifeites {djaffung von Urdiven objectiv feftfteht, fo find Gw. Excelleng nidjt dem Civit fondern dent Strafredjte fiir die vollftindige Ablieferung der in Shrem Gewabhrjam befindlic) gewejenen Ar- Hivatien verantwortlig. Indem das Answar- tige Wnt fite die in diejer Beranlaffung gu faffende Entidliefung die Beftinunungen deg Herr Reidstanzlers in alle Wege vorbebilt, beftiitigt daffelbe Ew. Excellens den Empfang der bereits erwahnten Concepte gu Bhven politifden Veridjten ans Paris, Nos. 131, 132, 133, aus dem Jahre 1873, Der Staats-Secretair des Auswirtigent Amts, | bv. Billow, An den Konighidher wirklicjen Geheimen Rath erm = Grafen v, Arnim, Syeelleny, | Rafferheina Arnim an Viilow. Mafferheide den 5, Auguft 1874. Ew. Excellens vom 5. Auguft dictirtes, von mix bet meiner Rildtehe vorgefundenes geneigtes Sdhreiben, habe ich gu erhalten die Ehre gehabt. Yq wiirde daffelbe uncrwidert Laffer, wenn id) nicht befondere Gritude Hitte, ber meine Stel- {ung jur Sache teinen Ziweifel auffommen ju lafien. €w, Exeellen; haben mein Privat{djrei- ben al8 ein amtlidjes entgegen su nehmen und behan deln gu miiffen geglaubt, Kannifpn uidt hindern, $d tan Gr. Excelleng daran nidjt hindern. Id) habe indeffen die Ehre gu erfliren, da meine Auffaffung unjerer gegenfeitigen Bezie- hungen nidjt geindert werden fann. Sd) fabre fort ju behaupten, da das WAnstwartige amt nidht eine mir vorgejetste Behirde ift. Die in dew cinftweiligen Rubheftand verfesten Reidsbeamten find eine Categorie von Perjonen, welde auf Grund ihrer friiheven Functionen und im Qinblict auf die Functionen gu welden fie berufen werden finnen, dem Reiche gegeniiber | Rechte und Pflidjten haben, deren Vinfang dud) das Gefey vom 31. Meir; 1873 genau begeidjnet ijt. Freie Staatsbiirger. AuKerhalh dex vom Gefege gegogenen Linie find diefe Perfonen vollftindig freie Staatsbiirger. Namentlich geht dics hervor ans dem § 119, Ew, Eroellens berufen fic) auf denfelben, wm nadhgu- weijen, da meine Wuffaffung umbegritudet tft. Joh aber bin der Meinung, da} der § 119 meine anttlichen Beziehungen jum Auswartigen Wntte fiie vollftiindig geléfet erfdeinen {agt, und dag namentlid) jede disciplinarifde Gewalt des Auswirtigen Umtes mic gegeniiber vollftindig aufgehirt hat. Der § 119 ftellt felt, da die §§ 84—118 aud) auf den it einftweiligen Ruhe- ftand gefetten Reidjsbeamten Anwendung finden. Die §§ 72 bis 73 finden aber auf dernfelben teine Anwendnng. C8 fird diefes die eingigen §§ durdh welde die vorgefeste Behirde mit Mit. teltr guv Bethatigung ihrer Disciplinargewalt ausgeriiftet wird, y Das preupifdhe Disciplinar-Gefer. Das preupifde Disciplinargefets ftellt die Ve- ainten in diefer Begichung ungiiuftiger, und id) Glaube da dic Aenderung, weldje in dem Reidjs- beamten Gefese ftattgefunden hat, ihren Ur. fprung dem Swede verdantt den MReidjsbeamten nad) feiner Gerfesung in den Rubeftand gegen tendentidfe Verfolgung Seitens feiner friiheren Vorgejegten gu fdiigen. Ew. Excellens fudjen bie Unhaltbarteit meiner WUuffaffung durd) die Vehauptung nadurveifen, dak das Gefey teine Beamten ohne einen denrfelben iibergeordnete Behirde tenne, und da die Behirde, gu tweldjer der in Rubeftand verfeste BVeamte foldje Bezie- Gumgen behalt, die frithere vorgefegte Behirde des Veamten fei. Diefer Ausfprud fteht mit den tlaren Beftimimungen des Gefeses in Biderfprud, und id) braudje faum darauf hinguwveifen wie unmiglid) e8 fein ditrfte cise vorgefette Behirde, 3. B. file den in einftwweiligen Ruheftand verfegten Reidjstangler, ausfindig gu madjen. Mad) den Bejtimmumgen des Reidsbeamten- Gefetes if die Disciplinargewalt iiber den in einftweiligen Rubeftand gejesten Beamten anf die Digciplinar-Lammern und den Disciplinar- Hof iibergegangen, auf deffen Thatigteit die obere Reidhsbehirde und in einem MUusnahme- falle ($ 85) aud) die m § 80 genannte Behirde cinen theils verbindenden, theils in die Berhand- ling eingreifenden Ginflug itben, Gin Gerhaltnif, wie e8 gwifdjen Vorgefetsten und Untergebenen befteht, wird hierdurd) jwi- fcjen der genannten Reidsbehirde und den Reicjs- beamten nidjt begriindet, Aidt ridtig.” Hievin wird aud dadurd) nidts geiindert, dag das UWusrwirtige Amt glaubt Anjpriidje an mid geltend madjen gu tonunen, meldje aus der Zeit Bervithren wo id) im activen Dienfte war. Denn felbft wenn ic) bereits penfionirter Seamter ware witrde bas Recht ded Auswartigen Antes feine Reclamation auf dem MRechtswege an verfolgen nidht anfgehoben werden tonnen, In Betreff der iibrigen Rechtsauffaffungen, weldje id) in dem gechrten Sdjreiben vom Sten v. Mt. fand, Habe id) nur yu erflaren, dag id) diefelben nidjt fiie vidjtig Halte. Sd) vergidjte aber auf jede Polemit, weil ich tein Gntereffe habe, einem disciplinarifdjen oder einem eventiell einguleiten- den Strafverfahren vorsubengen, Ih benuge auch drejeu Anlag zc. bv. Arnim An Seine Excellens den Staate-Seeretix des Auswhrtigen Amtes, Herrin v.B itlow, THE TRANSLATION, Bismarck-Arnim—Full Text of the Fa- mous Correspondence—A Complicated Paper War—Diplomatic Finesse of the Nineteenth Century — Matual Insults and Aristocratic Rudeness— Bulow and Arnim Are Both Right! We are in the gratifying position to lay be- fore our readers the full text of the historical correspondence between Bilow and Arnim: — BULOW TO ARNIM. Berum, July 6, 1874. After Your Excellency had returned, through the medium of Count Arpim Schlagenthin, altogether fourteen edicts and draughts, which were taken from the archives of the Imperial Legation in Paris, the Im- perial Ambassador, Prince Hohenlohe, pre- sented a list (a copy of which is inclosed) of the official documents which, after a com- parison of the numbers in the records of the Legation, were found to be missing. It still appears that a considerable number of po- litical edicts and reports of the years 1872— entered on the records of the Legation, and are no longer to be found among the archives. The statement of their contents has been completed, as far as possible, by reference to the register of this office. THE RESPONSIBILITY. It is self-evident that the responsibility for the absence of these documents rests, first of all, with the former chief of the Legation. I, therefore, demand from Your Excellency an official explanation as to your knowledge of these missing documents, and that you return forthwith to the Foreign Office those of the inclosed list which may still be in your pos- session, For the Imperial Chancellor. Vv. BULOW. To His Excellency the Royal Intimate Counsellor Count Von Arnim. ABNIM TO BULOW. Arnim's lengthy and exhaustive answer, in which he declines to give the official explana- | tion demanded by the Foreign Office, on the | ground that he had no longer the honor of | holding official relations with the Chancellor, | has already been published in the Huraxp. BULOW TO ARNIM, Brrum, August 5, 1874 The reply to my letter of July 6 which Your Excellency kindly addressed, under date of the 2ist, to the undersigned State Secretary | asa private communication, could only be received and treated as an official document. The view expressed by Your Excellency that your relations to the Foreign Office had en- tirely ceased is not in harmony with the law relating to imperial officials, whose applica- bility in this instance is self-evident, and has also been freely admitted by Your Excellency, 3 ARNIM’S DUTY, Your Excellency was temporarily retired by the most high imperial order of May 15, and consequently obliged, umder penalty of imperial office which might be conferred upon you under the legal presumptions. Until these have been graciously transferred by the imperial government to another de- partment, or until the most high authority ordains your dismissal trom the imperial ser- vice Your Excellency remains—what you were up to your retirement—an official of the Foreign Office, hence subjected to its official supervision and disciplinary power. Even if Your Excellency had not chosen to accept the legal ‘waiting salary” incident to your retirement, or to claim it any longer, there would have been no change in your relations to the Foreign Office, except that by the most high order of the Foreign Office, the services of Your Excellency had been temporarily dispensed with. OBEDIENCE NECESSARY. This view of the position of a retired official of the Empife has been acknowledged in theory and practice since the publication of the law relating to imperial officials and placed beyond doubt by the law itself—in fact, even by the paragraphs 84 to 118, quoted by Your Excellency. Were your view the | correct one then section 119 would overthrow it, as an official of the Empire cannot be freed | from his relations to an authority to whom he | is subject in a disciplinary point of view. | Your Excellency will, moreover, consider that sections 29 to 31 of the law in question explicitly recognize the retired officials as “officials” in the most diversified relations. THIS LAW neither recognizes officials other than | “officials of the Empire,’’ nor does it recog- | nize officials not subject to an authority re- sponsible to His Majesty the Emperor. When Your Excellency hints that you are merely at the disposition of the Emperor, our most gracious master, without recognizing an authority between, then an examination of the imperial constitution as well as of that of the Kingdom of Prussia will convince you that every official is, first of all, subordinate to the responsible Minister, respectively to the Chan- cellor of the realm. And the authority with which the retired official maintains these rela- tions is and remains—until a most high order provides differently—the former authority of | 1874, and other communications relative to the businegs of that mission, ware never | the official. STILL ANOTHER DOSE. The Foreign Office regrets to be compelled to add another reason why Your Excellency is legally prevented from considering your inde- | pendence as not being restricted by your former subordinate relations. Your Excellency did not consider it ne- eessary, when you left the mission which had been confided to you, to transfer the archives to the temporary Charge d’Affaires and to state, at the same time, that thoy were de- livered by you in that complete and orderly condition which duty prescribed. Hence Your Excellency remained responsible to the Foreign Office for the completeness of the archives intrusted to you in the most high* service according to the general principles of the law. Now that Your Excellency, in con- sequence of the demand resulting from the first discovery of missing documents of im- portance, has delivered the then named papers, and also again returned a few of the missing drafts, and maintains that the political edicts Nos. 224, 239, 271, 281 of 1872, 90, 102, 103, 104 of 1873, 2, 6, 14, 33, 68, 69, 74, 93, 193 of 1874 ARE YOUR PROPERTY, being private letters, the Foreign Office is compelled to state that neither this assertion nor the other evoking the eventual decision of the eivil courlg can be reconciled with the losing your ‘waiting salary,’’ to accept an | | the papers | the Foreign Office reserves to the Chancellor | pire are a class of persons who, in view of | respective laws. What belongs to the archives of an Imperial Legation will, in case of doubts arising, not be settled by the official to whom it was introsted, but by that superior authority to which he was and re- mains responsible for his official conduct, } Papers which, in official business and form, constitute the contents of a correspondence touching upon official relations and duties are not private but official documents, and hence belong to the archives. In the present case this demonstration can | be the less impugned as the papers quoted | above are numbered—i. ¢., officially marked— | in their order of succession, both for the sender and receiver. BETTER AND BETTER, These considerations are so simple that the Foreign Office does not for the present enter into the motives asserted by Your Excellency, and simply remarks that the chief of a foreign mission is permitted, under certain circum- stances, to secrete some papers, owing to their political or other significance, but that this right ceases with the end of his official term, and consequently that he is bound, on pain of being considered guilty of a violation of his duty, to deliver the entire archives to his rep- | If it can be proved from the register of the Foreign Office, in re- gard to the Legation in Paris, and from tho statements of the officials in question—what, however, has even partially been admitted by | Your Excellency—that the still missing papers were either taken from the archives of the Legation or never placed among them, Your Excellency will not deny, after mature delib- | eration, that your conduct in this matter is apt to necessitate not only a disciplinary but also a criminal proceeding. | Tesentative or successor. THE DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING. As far as an explanation by way of a civil suit is concerned, the provisions of the Prus- sian law which, according to section 19 of the law relating to officials of the Empire, are | to be applied to the present case and to papers of courts and administrative authorities, ex- clade the recognition of the respective docu- ments. On the other hand, the very appro- priation or abstraction of official papers from the archives of the Legation, such as is pre- sented in this case and still continued, re- quires the institution of the disciplinary pro- | ceeding, as provided by the law relating to | officials of the Empire ; also against retired officials. Besides, according to the provisions | of the Prussian criminal code, page 345, an | official is punishable who removes a document officially intrusted to him, and, according to section 350, if he embezzles money or other things. Even if it should be questionable whether despatches and papers of a legation | are documents in the technical mean- ing of the word (as the Royal Prussian Supreme ‘Tribunal assumes) | there can, nevertheless, be no doubt, in view of sections 133 and 276 of the Code, that éverything confided to an official belongs | to the class to which the punishment for embezzlement applic. A SEVERE FINALE, Tf, then, the criminality of the removal of | archives is established, Your Excellency is | responsible to the criminal and not to the | civil law for the complete surrender of in your possession. While of the Empire the action required by the case, it acknowledges the receipt from Your Excel- | lency of the above quoted draughts of your political reports from Paris, Nos. 131, 132, | 133, of the year 1873. Vv. BULOW, State Secretary of the Foreign Office. To His Excellency the Royal Actual In- timate Counsellor Count Von Amnms. ARNIM TO BULOW. NassEnHEwe, August 11, 1874. I have had the honor to receive upon my | return the kind letter of Your Excellency, | dated August 5, I should leave it unanswered if I had not special reasons for avoiding all doubts as to my position in this case. Your Ex- cellency has felt constrained to take my private letter as an official one, and 80 to treat it. HE CANNOT HELP IT, I cannot prevent Your Excellency from doing this, However, I have the honor to declare that my view of our mutual relations cannot be changed. I continue to maintain that the Foreign Office is not my superior au- thority. The temporarily retired officials of the Em- their former functions and of those which may be imposed upon them, have rights and duties | in regard to the Empire the extent of which is marked exactly by the law of March 31, 1873. FREE STATE CITIZENS, Beyond the line drawn by the law these, persons are entirely free citizens of the State, | which appears more especially from section 119. Your Excellency refers to it in order to prove that my view is incorrect, but I am of the opinion that section 119 makes my rela tions with the Foreign Office appear as having completely ended, and that I have, more par- | ticularly, ceased to be subject to its disciplin- | ary power. Section 119 declares that sections | 84 to 118 apply also to temporarily retired officials of the Empire. Sections 72 to 73, apply to them, tiong by which the superior authority is however, do not | These are the sole sec- | 3 endowed with means for the manitestation of its disciplinary powers. THE PRUSSIAN DISCIPLINARY LAW. The Prossian Disciplinary law places the official in a more disadvantageous position, and I believe that the change which has taken Place in the Imperial Officials’ law can be traced back to the desire for protecting the official after his retirement from persecution prompted by political motives. Your Excel- lency secks to prove the incorrectness of my view by the assertion that the law does not recognize an official without his superior au- thority, and that the authority to which he still holds these relations is the one to which he was formerly subject. THIS DECLARATION contradicts the clear provisions of the law, and I scarcely need to point out how impos- | sible it would be, for instance, to find a su- perior authority for the temporarily retired Chancellor of the Empire. According to the provisions of the law re- lating to imperial officials the disciplinary power over the temporarily retired officials bas been transferred to the Disciplinary Chambers and ihe Disciplinary Court, and their decision can bo actively influenced by the superior authority of the Empire, as well as in an exceptional case (section 85) by the | authority named in section 80. A relationship such as exists between the superior and subordinate is thereby not created between the beforenamed authority and the official. 7 3 “oT CORRECT.” This is not changed by the circumstance that the Foreign Office belicves to have claims upon me, arising out of the time wnen I was in active service. For, even if I were a pen- sioned official, the Foreign Office would not lose its right to enforce its claims by the arm of the law. As faras the other legal views contained in the esteemed letter of the fifth of this month are concerned, I have only to declare that I do not consider them correct. However, I desist from any further polemics, as I have no interest in preventing the institu- tion of adisciplinary or a criminal proceeding. Lavail myself of this opportunity, &c., &c., ARNIM. His Excellency the State Secretary of the Foreign Office, Henr von Bunow. AUSTRIAN JOURNALISTS DEFIANT. The Editors in Vienna Not Compelied to Tell Where They Received Their Von Arnim Information. Benury, Nov. 11, 1874. The Municipal Tribunal of this city re- quested the Provincial Court of Vienna to insist, by coercive measures, upon Herren Hauser and Lecher, editors of the Presse, giv- ing evidence as to the source from whieh the Von Arnim despatches, published 1m that paper, were obiained, since the Austrian penal code sanctioned such a course in im- portant cases. The Vienna Court, however, declined to so act, observing that, ‘although the matter was important to Prussia it was not to Austria,”* VON ARNIM’S UNDER SECRETARY. Explanation as to His Voluntary Re- turn to Europe. CINCINNATI, Nov. 11, 1874. The St. Lonis Globe will to-morow publish a card from the man Lonergan who induced the allegea Under Secretary to return to Europe without ex- tradition papers. The writer say3:— “I¢ would be so manifestly improper for me to make publicthe names and circumstances com- municated in professional confidence that no apology for my reticence is necessary. I only wish to state that the person alluded to was not illegally arrested, was not under duress at all, bat that his migration was purely voluntary, ‘This the public has a right to know,, and of this it can rest assured.” NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Orders and Assignments. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 1874. Commander Oscar F. Stanton has been ordered to the Navy Yard at Norfolk, Va., as senior aid to the Commandant; Commander William Wnhite- head has been ordered as Lighthouse Inspector of the Thirteenth Lighthouse district; Lieutenant Franklin Harreford and William P, Potter bavd been ordered io the receiving ship Vermont, at New York; Commander 8. Livingston Breese hag been detached trom the New York Navy 1ard and ordered to the command of the Ossipee, at Samana Bay, St. Domingo; Commander Francis M. Ramsay has peen detached trom the command of the Ossipee and ordered to return home; Master Martin E. Hall bas been detached from the Asiati¢ station and placed on waiting orders; Assistant Paymaster George A. Baring has veen ordered to the Triana, at Washington, D.C., in piace of Assisu ant Paymaster J. W. Jordan, detached trom shat vessse! and ordered to the Navy Yard at Pensa cola tor duty in charge of the accounts of ironclad? ai that place. THE ENVELOPE CONTRACT. | A Statement from Mr. J. G. Battersom HaRTFORD, Conn., Nov. 11, 1874, To THe EpiTok or THE HBRALD:— The statements made to your reporter by Mn George H. Reay, touching the envelope contract in so lar as they relate to the Postmaster General or to myself, are in all respects untrue. The Post master General does hot own the bulluing aud never did. He 1s not a partner O! Mine and vever was. He has no interest ip the contract directly or indirectly; neither nave 1, There was no con. trivauce, pian or arrangement against Re: he has no one vat a Toe eanthat ne — a folly whic! te 3..G. BATTERSON, THE NEW DIOOSSE IN JERSEY. To-day will be an important one for New Jersey Episcopalians. The formai division of the Stave into two dioceses will be effected. Two conven: tions will be held—one at Grace church, Newark, aud the other in Burlington, In the bishop will be chosen; in the former a committee and a name for the diocese. Both divisions are about equal in population, though the Northern or Newark diocese contains less area and more weaith. Bishop Odenheimer will preside over the Newark convention, CROTON WATER IN THE TWENTY-THIBD WARD, The connections of the Croton water matn, Placed under Harlem River on the Sth inst, be tween Second avenue and Lincoln avenue, have been made, and the Croton water turned througt the same. The residents of the ins tana ward have to-day (Thursday) the on innow having the Uroron nates rouge 9, their doors, | Fire hydrants have cen placed on the corners of bins avenue, and the racitlities for the ip ee ‘eutly tncreased. pe | nee, thorouguness with which the work hag | been done is creditable CA the Engincer and the i peparunest of Pubic Worl