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NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, VON ARNIM. Detailed Narrative of His Trial. SPERCHES OF PROSECUTION AND DEFENCE, —_—s——— THE DIPLOMATIC CORRES PONDENCE Arnim’s Report to the Kaiser Over the Chancellor’s Head. THE THREAT OF ANOTHER WAR. Curious Comments on the Acts and Views of Exalted Personages. English Opinion of Bis- marck’s Intent. The “Blood and Iron” Man's Machiavellism, as Seen by a French Red. The latest European aavices contam detajled Accounts of the trial of Count Arnim in addition to what we have already learned from our special cable despatches from London and Berlin. We condense irom the despatches in the London Zimes:— BPEECH OF THE PROSECUTION—DEMAND FOR TWO YEARS AND SIX MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. Having thus traced these publications home to the accused, we come to tue contents. * They were evidently intended vo usher in a campaign against the Chancellor. The Count, we learn from the first, is likely to resign. The Count, we are told in the second, recommended an energetic policy against the Pope and the Ultramontanes ata time when Bismarck was still temporizing and attempting to TeconcHe them to the political changes in Ger- The only motive, then, to be attributed to | many. the int for removing the documents is that he intended to continue bis attacks upon the Chan- cellor, and that be thought, however erroneously, the possession of the documents would give his arguments peculiar force and authenticity. Very probably he would not have allowed the summer to pass without making use of these Dopers, had not the echo of a certain shot fired @ Kissingen made tt a delicate affair to attack the Chancellor just then. As to the jurisdiction of the Court over the accused it was true that the misdemeanor had been committed at Paris, but the maasion of the German Embussy at Paris is German ground, and thus the offence was Commitsed within the jurisdiction of Germany. Clanges 348 and 3500! the Penal Coge, on which the charge is based, refer, the one to the abstrac- ‘tion of documents by officials, the other to the ab- straction o1 moneys and other things by officials, nh documents, Moneys ana other things being ssible to them in their official ces The aity varies at the discretion of the Judge tween three months and five years. ‘The erie is as gave as can be, having been committed by & man &@ — position ‘the least likely to lean to such transgressions, but as there was lo intention to make money—at any Tate, as I cannot prove that there was any inten- tion to make woney, ana as | am, therelore, not iM @ Losition to say that there was any intention te make money—I Will.not move that accused be deprived of nis mghts as a citizen (ehren rechte), and that the utmost penalty or the law be pro- nounced against bim. | move that he be sentenced to two years and six months’ imprisonment, REPLY FOR THE DEFENCE, Herr von Holtwzendor®, the tamous Professor of Criminal Law at Munich University, was the first counsel who spoke jor the deience. His speech, which took hin) nearly two hours to deliver, was 80 brilliant a specimen o! legal erudition, acumen nd eloquence that it 1s difficult todo auyihing like justice to it in asumuiary. He said:— “AS # projessor of law I should not have taken | Upon myself tue immense respoosinility of acting + mysterious traveller, who dogs the steps of 4m acase where address and ready arguments are | ite as Inuci required as a Knowledge Of the law. ying, however, upon the experience and tried debating quaiities o1 tue distinguished men with whom [| am associated in this deience, I have come hither at the request of the son of the ac- cused to state my opinion on the legal merits of the charge. 1 do so, slthough | am an cduuirer of the great statesman to whom the nation is so much indebted und whose antagonist my client 13; derfal effect, Iam to burn some of the outlying forts of the pul prosecutor, The mo- ment those torts are down we shall percetve that the main points of the charge, 1 may com- pare vo the citadel, are nothing but patnted side Scenes and have no reality at all, The four out- lying 1orts may be called Murray (the special cor- Tespondent oi the NEW YORK HERALD), Ernst, Echo du Parlement and Vienna Presse, Who 18 | Mr. Murray? Nobody knows, He 1s a traveller, | Who stays @ few aays in Bertin, sees a gentleman 1b connection with Count Arnum, and, accordingly, 18 supposed to have ag Armun inéelligence | in foreign parts. ho Mr. krnet? aap the | Pubic Prosecutor tO Paris and 18 suspected of | speaking to witnesses, Then there is the article | in the Zeho Qu Parlement, waich is sald to consue tute a terribie offence. But, gentlemen, let me ask you candidly, 18 it the allotted task of & diplo- | maust to tell the truth? The accused, no doubt, | Gid not tell the truth on that particular occasion, | But as it is nos in the way oO! his diplomatic pro- | Tession to be always telling the truth, surely he | Ought not to ve blamed for what he did. The pub- | lication in the Vienna Presse hus been likewise at- tributed to the accused, who, however, does not auinit it. Besides, the Count’s memorandum on the Ecumenical) Council published at Vienna was | Bot an official document, put only @ private essay 1 the accused. The real crime of Gount Arnim seems to be that he did not follow the Bismarck corors, and this, of course, justifies the Pubic Prosecutor in treating bin as thougn he were a member of the Kullmann party—a member Of @ party of murderers, Why should this distinguished diplomatist have abstracted | aocuments Which he Knew he could not publish “without incurring a severe penalty? I'he Count neither admitted nor denied that be published the article in the Vienna journal, the » But, even assuming that Dr, Lansverg, who sent the | article in question to the editor, received bis 1D- lormation irom the Count, whut lollowed? Cer- | tamiy not that the Count deserved tbe title of a German La Marmora, which nad been recently | bestowed upon him in the press. The papers pub- lished at Vienna were private .etters and the pri- vate memorandum of the Count, He chose, having been commissioned by his government, to encourage the German bishops ut the Ecu- Menical Council todeciare against Lnfallibility. fhe Count drew up this memorandum, circu- lated if among the assembled prelates, and some years afterward found it published at Vienna. Even those believing him to have caused the publication, as they cannot prove the memoran- dum ab official document, have no rigat to assert that he abstracted other official documents for a similar purpose, So weak is the charge preferred thas all [ have does nov exhaust 118 inconsis- tency. Let us suppose for a moment the accused did pubhsh his memorandum and intended to fol- low up this publication by others, Does this prove that he required the originals ? Wouid not copies have done as well? Would it not have been much water to take copies and deposit the originals in the archives? The 0; ive course, Which has been attributed to vhe Count, is simply absurd,”” The above will suffice to characterize the style ot me speaker, Which is very usual in @ German cour oe Tessendord, the Public Prosecutor, plied:— He pointed out that Mr. Murray and Herr Ernst had oaly been incidentally mentioned in the in- dictment, With respect to the matters published by the kcho du Purkiment and the Vienna Presse, * he could only confine himself to what he had already said, Dr. Dockhorn’s assumption that he (br. Tessendori) had ranged Count Arnin with the Kullman iraction was based upon a misconception, Dr. Tessendorm then proceeded to deal with the question of Count Aruim’s motives, and said that with regard to the documents the accusea had npimself expressly stated that he bad taken them for the purpose uf bis own defence. Moreover, Baron von Holstein had deposed on oath that Herr Beckmann had communicated to the staff of the Embassy in Paris the iollowing ex- ession of the accused :—"‘l shall not be removed om My post, or placed on the retired itst, for I hold documents which seriously compromise Bismarck.” | Finally, Dr. Teasendorif continued that the con- tents of all the documents belonged to the high- est sphere of politics, a fact wich was proved by | the unusual interest in them displayed by the press of the whole world. The censure adminis- tered by Prince Bismarck to Count Arnim in- terested no one, Dr. Tessendortf rejected the parallel drawn by Dr. Docknorn between the Wal- deck and Arnim triats, SPEBCH OF COUNT ARNIM. The Judge then asked the accused whether he Wished to offer any further remarks, Count Ar- nim rose and said:— a “My learned imends who are good enough to allow me the advantage o/ their support on thit trying occagion have 80 conclusively invalidated the legal and technical points of the charge that [ sbould only be injuring my cause were | to revert to thie side of the matter. But I wisn to say a tew | words upon another aspect of tuts melancholy affair. the course of the trial 1 happened to | mention incidentally tuat, so littie did I regard the missing papers as official, that when | pat them away I wrapped them up in a sheet of paper, upon which I wrote ‘Papers Kelating to my Conilict with B.’ Tbe Public Prosecutor, im 19 pleasant way, retorted that this meant notning, and what he would also coniiict papers upon the file reiat- ing to my case. In reply I may be permitted to tell him that when 1 put those words upon the cover I a tuat act and in that parcel entomoed a frend. ship which dates from my youth, and which had lusted maby years, Li you Will please consider the contents 01 that parcel in the ligut of what { re- | Bave just tulad you, you wil, 1 believe, arrive at Ido 80, aituough 1 am aware that, the vital inter- | ests of this country being at tne present moment imumateiy bound up with our soreign politics, the nation is particularly sensitive ‘with regard to offences affecting our position toward our neighbors. | do so, becauge tt is my deliberate conviction that, whatever may be the political aspect of the moment and ‘whatever the oflence charged against tne accused, the letter of the law must be adhered to if ts country is legality and strict justice. what I have heard and seen the tew days I have been in Berlin 1 should not be ver; the result were my client placed beiore a jury; Dut when 1 have to deal with a Court learned in the jaw and as determined as it is able to distin- guish between facts aud appearances— between general impressions of guilt and the question of the applicability of the stacutes—then, convinced that the real aspect of the case wil: come out ond the accused be acquitted from the very outset, There has been the greatest uncertainty as to tne quality and quan- tity of the misdemeanor to be charged against the accused. Appropriation, abstraction, removal and embvezziement were charged against bim by the Foreign Office und say, ] am | to preserve its ancient renown for | 1 contess that from | sanguine 4s to | the Court when ordering the arrest. Of all this | there is at present only the removai to be dealt with, According to clause 848 the removal of docu- ments is liable to be punished wita at least a Month’s imprisonment; but according to clause 85 the removal of moneys and other things ex- the culprit to at least three months’ im- prisonment. The Public Prosecutor, not being quite certain whether the objects removed are to be classed as oficial documents, bas based his eharge upon buth clauses—a precaution wiich, as the two clauses contradict each other, ex- plodes the charge, The Court will be pieased to consider that in the whole annals of German juris- prudence, there being no'case tn point, the charge can be regarded as substantiated only if a dis- tinct Vice Of a distinct statute is proved to ap- ply to it, he verdict of this Court wil be ex- amined by every proiessor o! law in the German universities—it may be by many lawyers in every parto! the world, The responsibility involved in an erroneous sentence wouid be very terrivle, So oucd Jor the Criminal Code and its applicaoility vo | the case. which is likewise said to reier to the case, all I cap Say 18 that there are certainly not three members mm the diplomatic service who knew Of its exist- As t© the Prussian rescript of 1711, | ence before it was exhumed to do service on tnis | special occasion. Even supposing it to retain Validity to tis day, the most loyal subject o! the Crown will not assert that It extends to any bat the Prussian diplomatic service. But 1 beg to ov- serve this is an extinct species, Oount Arnim was not a member of the Prussian, but of the German diplomatic service, and the rescript Of 1711 has never been extended to the diplomatic servants of the Empire. Thus if the German Penal Coue, which affects Germans alike, cannot be proved to reier to the case of Count Arnim Shere 1s absolately no law at all which re- fers to 1%. Nor do I jor & moment ad- mit that the general rules observed in keeping aud registering documents apply to diplomacy. An ambassador is not only entitled, but absolutely Obiiged to prevent secret documents being de- sited In & place where they may be accessible to bird persons, He may, on the contrary, bide them andeveo burn them if he think it to the public interest. As to Count Arnim keeping copies ‘of his own reports which he did not deposit in the archives, this Was a periectly legitimate proceed- ing, considering that no Prussian or German dip. lomatist is required to make drafts. All Bng- Mish ministers may keep copies oO! their own despatones when going out of office, and in France it required a 8 order of the King to prevent maiuisters doing 80. Moreover, are the missing Papers official documents? What a document Feally is is one of the most intricate ques tions; but a diplomatic essay, or, rather, a diplomatic leading article, such as is con- tainea the papers the accused has avowedly taken away, certainly cannot be classed asadocument. No paper cau be 4 document un- less i of legal unportance. The missing papers are simp! though they will be regarded as historical docu- ments 900 years hence. The worst, therefore, ‘which can be said against the accused 1s, that he acted against usage aud that he 18 liable to a reprimand or some slight disciplinary penance ly communications on current events, | | ment nous tera la guerre apres Vindemnité sols but even whe Oount’s negligence 1s to be excused | Considering the affliction tnto which he was lunged by the death of his daughter just at the Gime of ba recall. ‘The speaker, aiter entering npon some more legal niceties, Wound up by expauating upon the personal and diplomatic merits of tne late Ambas- gador, “that noble and distinguishea man, who spurns pity and only demands to be jndged in a® ovrdance with the old Prussian motto, «suum lerr Teasendorf, the Public Prosecutor, replied the counsel for the defence. Aiter this Herr Docknorn, second couneel for the defence, whose rare talents have ied to hia being brought irom Posen, gpt into the saddle, like @ Oossack breaking forth in the rear of heavy professional artillery, and said :— “Tee Tr oiuiaes BAL Bue | the ground that I must not allow mysel! to be the cOuciusion ‘that I nad reason to think myself | entitled to regard those papers as my property. | 1 have anovher remark to oder apon a charge re- tedly made against me in this Court, thuugh {| not contained in We act of accusation. 1am rep- | resenteu as having acted contrary to instructions. 1 veheve I may regard it as probubie that this | trial aud the events which Ikd to it will be scrutinized by historians. Every ime I have | written is likely to be examined. Byer comma- nication | received from home will be subjected to | the Closest inspection. But, however strict the | search, there will be no evidence discovered | that I acted contrary to orders. 1 reported nome | what I thought to be correct. My reports may not have given satisiaction, but! agree witn my leurned irieud, Professor Von soitzendort, that reports should not ve written to order, or, at all events, \bat there can be no penal offence in writing them irom a point of view different irom the one adopted in istructions. If the disciplin- ary laws permitted me to move fora judicial in- ‘quiry mto my conduct I should certainly court an Investigation as to whether I have ever acted cou- trary wo iustructions, in ancient Germany a man ol fair and uublemished reputation, when charged With an offence against the law, Was entitied to claim the right Of clearing nimsel{ by oath. if | this practice, abolished, | veneve, oniy 100 years ago, still prevailed, i suouid offer to swear, here gud at this moment, that l had no uniawiui de- sigus when retaiming the papers under discussion.’? ‘The presiding Judge, hav: Bald a ew words to protect tae Judge o1 Inquiry against the attacks Of counsel, Closed the sitting with the announce- | ment that sentence would be Teese on Saturday next, at tour o’clock P. M. SUMMARY OF THE TRIAL. Two remarks may be appended. All the more important documents bave been successiully re- stored by the accused, amo! them the three Reports upon the Keclesiastical Politics of Foreign | Nations, read at the secret sittlug 0! the Court, With the exception of these three reports, all the papers ori ly removed and included tn the Act of Accusation, whether restored or not, were read at the public sittings of the Court, and im- mediately reduced to print, {t appears, bowever, | Irom several passages Of the Act of Accusation | that pot ail the metesing papery were wocluded in tue charge, some of them being of a nature to render the reading of copies in the Court anaa- visable. The number of the documents un- der this category is unkuown. Another im- rtant point ‘is the deposition of Baron joistein; German Councilior of Legation at Paris, that Count Arnim, soon after tue issue of the jamous pastoral letsers by the French bishops, told Dr. Landsberg Bismarck meant war, sod ior tnis reason requested Dr. Landsvery to cause the German press to dissaade the Chaucellor Irom 80 au enterprise. Baron Holstein’s statement not been contradicted by Count Arnim or by Dr. Landsberg, nor bas Count Aroim offered any explapations a8 to the reasons he had lor attrivul- ing, Warlike designs to his government— desigi8s 50 dangerous and immediate that they had to be exposed at once in the press. ‘Stull, it Would bave been exceedingly interestin, to learn @ little More on this delicate subject, a we know from other official sources being calcu- lated © make tne Count’s expressed apprenen- sions appear utterly groundless. Baron Hoistein, himself a member of the German Embassy at | Puris, was positively frightened by wat Dr. | Lanosberg tola im of the Ambassador's ex- pressed opinions, and, prevailing on his informant Not Lo breathe a syllable about it, wrote to Beritu desiring his correspondent to lay nis letter vetore Prince Bismarck. The intentions of the Chancellor | at that momené had been communicated to Count Arnim in two of the missing rescripts, respec- ; tively dated January 8 and January LU, 1874, which, s0 tar as known, blawed the Ambassador for not complaining once to the French Vvab- inet and threatening legal measures against the Bishops, THE ACCUSATION. The following is included under the heading No. | 8 of the Act of Accusation :— REPORT OF COUNT ABNIM TO PRINCB BISMARCK. PaRis, Feb, 7, 1873. “In the course of my recent conversation with M. Thiers the President suddenly warming up ad- dressea to me thdse questions:—‘Fol de gulant nomme, dives moi est-il vraa que votre gouverne- payée? Je suis adr que vous me direz la verita Apres avoir traité avec mot les plus graves affaires, 00 vous avez pu ¢constater ms bonue foi, vous ne pourriez pas faire jouer A un Vieiliard un role de dupe ridicule. Je répéte que je veux la paix, ia palx, et encore la paix. Le pays, malgré les ap- parences, le veut aussi. Ii maudit ses juges, mais itaccept le verdict. Ainsidites moi la verié en gentuhomme.’ I thought I shouid not be jus tified in declining to answer these questions on pushed into a corner between 4a for dun genti- homme?’ and les devoirsa’un ambassadeur. | there- fore did not scruple to teil the Presiuent thatit was | my bones convicuons that neither His Majesty ine Emperor nor his advisers, nor the nation at large as all sought, pitnned or wisned for war wita France, | asked M, Thiers what interest we could have in renewing hosultties, The war had entatied upon ws sacrifices too enormous to be easily made up for Without the continuance of peace. A new war would entail fresh sacrifices upon individuals, and at best leave individuals unrequited, be the terme | of peace ever 80 advantageous. M, Thiers might GAGA 40k Aly Wha) Nip | partists. though warlike, would never be bellicose neigh bors. It was, unfortunately, different with the French, who were laying up stores of hatred which must explode before long, unless, indeed, it were a ‘to induce the nation to adopt a calmer at- jude, The present flerce disposition of the French involved a danger respecting which M. lers would do well not to deceive himsell, M. Thiers repeated i assurances and expressed @& nope that the belief in the preserva- tion of ~— peace = would = be _ gradually strengthened. in my opmion the preservation Of peace juss now is independent of the feelings of M. Thiers and his countrymen. If M. ‘Tniers had @ fuily equipped army at bis disposal his assurance | would be worth nothing. Even now he has a de- cided and instincuve predilection for War; but as my military advisers regard it as certain that within the next few years the French army will not be in a condition to cope with ours, even in a short campaign, to begin war would ve an act of mad- ness of which even the flighty French will hardly be guilty, Their military weakness 18 so evident that were we to get involved in a war with some other nation, the French this year and the next would be but a sorry ally for our enemy. Without laying ourselves open to the reproach of judg- ing .rashly we May say that til the middle 1 1874 the French army is practitally not much more formidable than the beigian; and as complications with other Powers are pot to be ARs prenended, the French army at this moment does net count at all. From this point of view | am of Opinion that tt would be still more to our interest than to that of the French 1), on certain coudi- tions, we were to evacuate the couutry at a still earlier date than M. Thiers has proposed.” The Ambassador then proceeds to detail his ideas about accelerating the payment of the in- demnity, These propositions are autiquated and can be of no interest now. But it deserves to be mentioned that in @ statement insered in & Berlin paper soon after Count Aruim’s arrest, and noto- | riously proceeding trom his friends, if not from his nearest relatives, one of the me: its attributed to him was that he endeavored to prolong the occ pation of France, 30 as to exercise a strong influ- ence on her destinies and prevent Germany being swamped by too much money at once, THE BISMABRCK-ARNIM CORRESPONDENCE. The following 18 an abstract of the principal documents which were read in Court during the progress of Von Arnim’s érial:— BISMARCK’S DIPLOMACY TOWARD RUSSIA. Under date Berlin, February 10, 1872, Prince Bismarck tells Coupt Arnim to treat Prince Orlotf, ‘he new Russian Ambassador at Paris, as a friend of Germany. The French will certaimly try to fatter the Prince into close relations, and the Prince is likely to accept and reciprocate ail those demonstrations of good will and respect cal- culated to give ¢clat to bis ambassadorial position, But Prince Orloff 1s a patriot abd looks upon good anticipate, But the German Ambassador could not | be instructed to assuage the T of the Freuch as long as he could not attempt to do 60 without | derogating from the dignity of his nation. Ger- many meant peace, but was prepared for the worst. Her motto must be the Latin “Odertnt dum metuant.” Under these circumstances the Ger | man Ambassador need not take the trouble to re- | port at length upon the loreign policy of this or that Frepch politician, In their sentiments to | ward Germany they were all asone, The Am- bassador Was certainly uot to force his acquaint. @nce upon unwilling friends, yet he should courteously reciprocate any courtesy siown bim, | were it only to prove the general discourtesy by | contrast. As to the German residents, the Prince contessed he had no sympathy with people who | used to consider themselves partisans when all was well, and only remembered they were Ger- | mans when they needed protection. They had better Nave stayed at home than gone to France where they kuew they were hated. Hvuwever, if | illegalities were gommitied against them the Ambassador would have to interfere, THE “APPRONT? BY MMH, DE ROTNSCHILD. Another rescript of Bismarck’s, dated Berlin, | December 30, 1873, 18 @ reply to Count Arnim’s re- ort upon the aifront stated vo have veen offered | iin by Mme. de Rothschild at the table of the Duc Decazes. Bismarck, duteriug from Count Arnim ma. $15.48 OL BO MANY Other Occasions, ts dissatis- | ed with the reparation inade by tue Duc Decazes, | A written complaint having been lodged by the | Ambassador, the Due Dees according to Bis- | marck, ought to have expressed his regrets in | writing instead of dropping @ few oral remarks upon the subject. In accordance with the special command of the Emperor, Count Arnim was toask the Duc De- | cases Jor @ written repiy, and to pay no visits to French houses until jurther notice.” Count Arnim, under date Paris, Janaary 7, 1874, states that vis complaint to the Duc Decazes about Mme. de | Rothscoild was contaiged in a private letter, and | was iuumediately answered by the Duc Decazes | ina private letter, If the fact of the Duc De- | cazes having written to him was not mentioned tn the Ambassador’s previous report the reason | ‘was that the oral explanations oJ the Luke were 80 much more important than bis letter. upon the subject private, and, indeed, all he (Count Arnim) said at the begining of the season | was that he did not mean to Fer up with any siignta, At the request of the Duc Decazes, Mar- shal MacMahon sent is secretary, the Comte . d'Harcourt, to M. de Rothschild, to ask him to relations with Germany as profitable to Kussia. | He may, therefore, be trusted. HOW HE FELT TOWARD THE POPR. Under date Berlin, Apru 28, Prince Bismarck tn- forms Count Arnim tnat Cardinal Honenlohe has been appointed German Ambassador to the Vati- can. Being a cardinal and having lived so many years in Rome, it was evident that he would not ‘aliow himsel! to be made use of fur punDOeEe hos- tile to the Pope. His appointment, therefore, was another prooi of the concilatory sentiments enter- tamed by t.e German Emperor, VON ARNIM’S REPORT ON THE FEELING IN FRANCE. Under date Paris, May 6, 1872, Count Arnim re- | Ports upon a conversation with M, Thiers, wo, he Says, assures him o/ nis sincere intention to main- tain peace, M. Thiers told bim that France was and that, therefore, government to avoid ali complications, “Of course,” M. Thiers added, “a time mav come when France will have recovered fortunes, and when Germany, in her turn, wid be involved in difmicuities. At such a juncture France might endeavor to square accounts with Germany; but even this need not lead to war, a8 France, far from being an impiacavoie enemy, Would be sure to ally hersel! with Germany ip ine eleventh nour, provided Germany were to accord her & compensation jor recent josses.” **How- ever,” M. Thiers wound up, **this would not occur im nia lifetime. He was old, broken and utierly disgusted with the stupid ingratitude of the Legis- lative Assembly.” ‘Yo this Count Arnim replied that the sentiments expressed by M. le President being in perfect ac- cord with the ¢ircumstances of tne case tneir sin- cerity cuuld nos be aoubted; but there Was Doth. ing to guarantee M, Thiers remaining 10 power. ‘Those coming alver him might take a less judicious view. sembly hardly wished to and that, even Mf he were forced to re- sign, Mis successor would be either Henri Cing nor the Duc d’Aumale, nor Gambetta, but Casimir Perier or some respectabie citizen of tne sume class. To this report o! bis conversation with the Presidens Connt Arnim appends a iew desultory remarks on tue state of parties in France. turn - him out, not now in @ position to make war, | it was the duty of her | irom her mis- | M. Thiers rejoined that the National As- { ' France, very much in tue spirit of Count Arnim’s According to tim the red republicans were steadily | Muking progress among tire rural popuiation, and im che army the only influence capable of coping with the Republic was the charm @nd lustre of the Napoleonic name. If the Bonapartists succeeded in appointing MacMahon, Cissey or Vinoy suceessor to M. Thiers, the new Military Presideut would probabiy order a pliétscite. When Napoleon IV. was likely to be elected the bourgeoisie would suomit and rejoice 1D the protection of @ strong government. If, however, tue National Assembly were to take it into their heads to make the Duc d’Aumale or Casimir Perier President, the Bonapartists were in hopes | that the German government, being interesied in the maintenance of peace, would be arrrayed , against a weak and merely nominal dictatorship which offered them no guarantee. ‘he Ambassa- gor Was of opinion that the German government should not discourage the hopes of the Bona- They were the only party who did not prociaim the necessity oi an avenging war. ‘rhe Duc d’Aumale and Gambetta were alike | dangerous to Germany, and Casimir Pener wouid only mark an intermediate stage between M. Thiers and the reds, Jt was in the inverest of Ger- may to secure the milliards and bring on the in- evitable change of government in France while the German troops were still in the country and might influence the unpending developments. BISMABCK’S REPLY, To Count Arnim’s reports Prince Bismarck briefly replies, Under dave of Berlin, May 12, 1872, the Prince says that, according to what he has heard of the state of French parties, the posi- tion of the Orieans Princes is greatly shaken by their peculiar views of nance. The Bona- | mulated deficit, as well as the 800,000,000 francs | Ppartists were, perhaps, not quiie as hostile to | Germany as the other politicai parties; yet the German government has no occasion 10 encour | age any of the contending factions while the existing Cabinet was (aivaiully carrying out the Supulations of the Bonsparusts mereiy as one among a whole cornucopia of opposing parties. It was cleariy the best poucy for Germany while the instalments of the indemnity were regularly coming. BMPRESS AUGUSTA AND QyizoT. Count Aroim, under date of Patis, January, 1873, reports apon the social position of tne G man residents tn France. The German &mpress, he says, having desired to learn M, Guizow's opinion upon this paintul topic, ce latter nad re- plied wuat a change tor the brougut about only by time anc circumstances. i THE GERMANS IN PRANCE, According to Count Arnim, the French hated Germany more intensely in 1873 coan in 1872 or 1871, it was disagreeabie, ne says, but meant Precious tittle, Some sudden event or some new mot @orare might, at a moment’s notice, turn French auimosities into @ different channel. in the meantime, the poor German tradesmen, com- tter could be | Pelled to remain in France because they could | not afford. to give ap their business, nad a hard time of it, The Ambassador, Dotwitnstanding all the victories oO! the German army, could compei no Frenchman to behave with ordinary courtesy in lis social imter- course With Germans. There were a Jew Germans of a higher rank left at Paris, pat they all compluineu of the inveterate animosity and Spite they encountered everywhere. As to the Ambassador's intercourse with Frenchmen, ex- cepting those whom he had simply ignored, no | fact, to the Doke’s own father :— more than two Frenchmen hac visited the Em- | bassy Who were not direotly or indirectly patd tor it, and those two had dove so stealthily. Li he occasionally met Frepch people at the Austrian Embassy, they behaved hike well bred persons find ing others they did not wish (0 Know. At tue Walt- | Bication with composure. ing room o/ a railway station the ladies were likely | on these occasions to favor their behavior with an extra dose of impertinence, but, being near sighted, the Ambassador escaped the infliction. ‘The only way ior him co secure social intercourse Would be to appear to disapprove the cruel policy Of uis barbarous government; but, of course, be disdained to do this; besides, he must contess he was not particularly susceptible of the charm of French society. In Germany the aristocracy re- sided on their estates and were a living presence all over the country. In France, the /auvourg 5! Germain was tamous only because nothing of the kind existed anywhere eise in the country, in Germany, the influence and position of the ancient noble families was such that | the government could not afford to ignore them without seriously injuring the common weal. In France the Faubourg 4 3 cera eaus at best manners ana wealth, but certainly fod power. He (the Ambassador) had no wisf to force his acquaintance apon a class personally in- different to him, und which officially couid pot oe turned to account. The relations oetween Frayoe and Germany at this moment were very much like those existing between Sardinia and Austria in | the period preceding the war of 1859. BISMARCK ON THE TONE OP PRENCH SOCIETY. Prince Bismarck’s reply ts dated Kerlin, Fevra- ary 2 1873, The Prince aasures the Ambassador that the painiul position of German residents in France hus long beeu the object of offictal solici- tude in Berlin; however, nothing could be done @t present. In ® sense, the task of the German i was taeilitated by the undisguised hostility of French society, This vehavior of tne Freneh must prove to the Ambassador, a@ to everybody else, that the Frenct intended to en- gage in a war de revanche as soon as possible, and that tf there was any difference in the for. eign policy of the various poitical parties, It arose, not (rom their different disposition toward Germany, bat from other and purely accidental causes ‘connected with thelr bome tactics. Whatever party might be in power, ag soon aa the = country has recovered suite cient strength to resume hostilities, public opinion would compel a renewai of war. The German government were pertecily prepared for vhis, and had no idea of holding their Ambassador responsible if he failed to restrain the bellicose propensities of the Gaal. If the German Empress had seemed to expecta speedy cessation o! French animosities, Her Majesty's hopes were tn pe Jb Wai! Aso anid Tap And Jonas ; aval, excuse himself, M. Gustave de Rothschild denied all knowledge of what bis wie had done, but had called apoa the Ambassador in consequence of the Marshal's re- | quest. his and the Marsnale deciaration that he | would take care that Lue Alabassador Was re-pec- | fully treated wherever and whenever he appeared | 1a bis official capacity, caused the Ambassador to | inquire whether he had not better accept the in- | vitation to the Marshal's bail on the ldty. The above report of Count Arnum’s {8 one of those | eleganuy phrased compositions of the Ambassa- | dor in Which 1¢ is easier to detect the design of the whole than co follow the argument. THE VATICAN AND ITALIAN DIFFICULTIES, In another report, dated Paris, January 13, 1874, Count Arnim adverts to the dificult position of the French Ambassador at Rome, Being structed to please the Pope without offending the Italian government, he is in constant fear 01 getting into @scrape. The french government considered it a sort of sacred duty to protect the person ol the | Pope, aad would certainly aot jeld = to Italy upon a question of this Mature; but tf ail Europe were to insist upon tueir assuming & dillerent attitude at Rome the French government might perhaps be glad to find a pretext for mod | fying the aifiicuit and questionable course they were holding vetween Italian and Papal tdiosynera- cies, Meauwhile it was hardly .dvantageous that the Itberal press of Germany ana Engiand prevented the French government irom entangling themselves with the Pope, Bat lor the timely warnings of the Ber- lin and London papers the Frencn govern- ment would have fallen into the trap yen berore, Bismarck’s answer to this, dated Berlin, January 18, 1874, is a8 terse as Mt ts remarkable, Count Arnim, he says, 13 altogether mistaken tf be tan- cles that Germany wisues to see France and Italy failout. The reverse was the case, and this for the simple reason that Germany woulc be inevitably dragged in, as she could not atford to leave italy im tne lurch. As | to the Count’s idea of causing all Europe to censure ‘he Italian policy of France, Bismarck declined to enlertain any proposai of the sort, Supplementing this rescript, Prince Bismarck, 1 a communication dated January 23, 1874, adverts to ap article in the Journal de Pai Speaking of & possible contict oetween Italy an last report. Tne Prince 18 surprised to find Count Arnim’s opinton echoed in the French press, aud wonld like to be iniormed some- what more accurately as tne ing and origin of it all. He ‘hough there may be two opinions avout the ua- vantage Germany Might derive irom @ conflict between Italy and France, he must object to the Count’s proposing aN schemes ivr the guidance ol wuis government, He expects the Count to ex- lain the designs of French politicians, and to tell mi Whether he thinks them in the German inter- St OF NOt, vat he does not expect him to recom- mend to this government to take the iniuative In snducing a new phase of European politics.” THB FRENCH PRESIDENCY—THEB DOMESTIC STATUS. A report oi Count Arnim, dated Paris, January 22, 1872, relers W o disagreement between M. Tulers and the National Assembiy. The detaus are not Low Oi Mucb importance, bus it is wor- | thy of note that the Count in the compass of a@ ‘lew lines permits bimsei to call M. hers “incapable, capricious, absolutist, iniallidvle, om- Disciebt, OMmpotent,” aud so on—rather barsh | criticisms of the man whom his government re- spected and whose continuance in power Prince Bismarok thougnt to the interest of Germany. Another lengthy report on the domestic aifairs | culm. | of ‘France, duted Paris, December L 1872 Dates ib the anticipation of what, in the most favorable case, the deficit for a number of years Inust umount to annually, But, vad as this assumption 18 still too sanguine. In all probability, the Ambassador says, France five years lieuce Will have to choose between a very Considerable reauction of her expenuiture or & loan of two milliards to get rid gv! the new sccur already Owing. [bis new loan will saddle the country Wiih anotuer 120,000,000 francs annual in- teresi—a sum 80 laige that it cannot but weigh heavily Upon the taxpayers, WHAT THE DUK DE BROGIIE SAID. Under aate of Paris, October 15, 1973, Count Arnim reports upou @ conversation with the Duc de Broglie. He has seen the Duc de broghie. in ac. cordance with instructions, and he hus told toe Duke that the French government did nothing to modify ‘he language of their press, nor to pre- Vent eminent persunages from adopting so pro- VokIng au attitude as (hat recently assumed vy the Duc de Nancy. Tue vuke had recently delivered an energetic speech upon the necessity of do- mestic reaction, and he had lalied to saya word about the necessity of maintammg peace. ‘the conclusion to be drawn from all this was tnat the French government aod nation Were looking upon the present state of things a3 an armistice to 06 broken npon the first favorable opportunity. When papers serving the French govern- ment were holding orth in the most ex- traord’nary style upon the correspondence between the German Emperor and tne Pope, it was a@littie too much to expect that the old Plea ‘*Qu’il sallatt etre mdulgent pour les vaincus” would be amy jonger accepted. The time bad arrived “de réclamer un peu d’indulgence pour les vainqueurs.” ‘The Duc de Broglie bad told him before that Germany, uaving gained so much by the war, need not ve so ritabie at the inconven- dences entailed; but he mustinform tne Duo that no compensation Germany had obtained was sum- cleat to make her put up witn the certainty of another campaign at an early date. Li the French excitement, as the Duc de Brogite toid him, was only ou the surtace, it would be all the easier to allay it, He (Count Arnim) must remind the Duc Of Vie saying attributed to a great statesman; in “Que les choses pas menies menent a la give Germany the guarantee that they wished to Maintain peace, tey must not be astonished if Ger- many Were to think it indispensable to secure the certainty of @ pacific existence by some other meaaos. Lhe Duc ae Broghe received this commu- He said tie had re- peatedly given warnings to the press without He would, bowever, take an early oppor- tunity to declare, either by dipiomatic act or by a pubiic speech, that he regarded the existing arrangements between Germany and France as definitive. If the Pope and other dispossessed princes jooked to France for the tuliiiment of toeir wishes tiey would be surely disappointed, He could dot out toank the Ambassador sincerely tor the candor with which he vad spoken, Under date of Paris, January 15, 1874, Count Ar- + Dim reports apon the domestic affairs of France, riect | the German army mignt be less solid anu strong | ARTES Commenting upon the resignation of the Cabinet, he says taac everything was Low ripe tor a coup @erat and thata dictatorship would certainly ve get on joot lf there were persons at hand fit and | ready to assume power, Mhe state of tuings was @s melancnoty as possivie, but it would ave to get worse still veiore anybody could attempt to Fepair the broken machinery oi State. > ARNUM'S REPORT {0 THE EMPEROR, Another report of Uount Arnim's, addressed to the Emperor personally, is daved April 11, 1874, and rans as ioliow: “ILLUSTRIOUS SOVERRIGN, &c.—Although it may be superiiuous to state that the opposition Your Majesty's goverument receauy met wita in Par- hament on the suoject of the military estimates has given mtense sausiaction nere, | may yet ve permitted to Mention buat the well Known Colonel pamue! the otuer day expressed bis utter astou- | isament at the tactics pursued by @ fraction o! the Reichstag. According to Volone: Samuei the pre- ponderauce of Germany rests upon the permanent organization and strength of the German army. It ts certainly @ strange phenomenon thas in France, whose army has jorieited its ancient re- nownh, ho one thinks of impugning its capabiiities; while in Germany, which ts indebted te her awiny for everything, & parliamentary party dares vo Taise its voice against the perpetuation aud firm. hess of our existiug military arrangements. Lao not hesitate to avyow my persuasion that among those hkely to govern France within the next few years there 1s not one who wishes tor war with Ger- many, or indeed, thinks it practicable. This ac quiescence, however, solely results from the con- viction that France requires time to prepate he army for another tilt with the German troops. Should the opinion gain ground in France that a Whale aaa PERCE ADA 18 | Hour wajestg, aud thats ut sce de ; B8equently condemned to a twen' The Duc | Decazes had asked him to keep the correspondence | mean- | repeats that | tis, | In conclusion, if | the Freaca government neitner could nor would | mn woukl be at once regarded tne different it. Bap princtoat task, therefore, seems to be to Er them dread war with Germany. At present this fear is So predomsnans that, under no cireum- tances will they determine upon war. It is true, Geieat at tins moment would be inevitable, but if our nulitary machinery, by which every Prench- man believes a German y can be whirled to Paris few days, were to G out of orcer, the French mind would fn. mediately look upon sibilities in ® very different light, War would no longer appear absurd, and the moment ts occurred we should have to-deal again with the anaccountable whims of @ most impulsive Dation. All these ai Ave DOL taken ¥ ueart the teachings of the immediate ast. There is another remark that is, perhap: jes jrequently oflered. France 18 at this momen! being governed by persons whose political eauca- tion began under Louis Philippe; they were sub- | ty years’ inactiv- ity and many of them lived like, ii Dot absolutely as, émigrés. By a reversion of the wheel o( tor tune, they are bow placed at the head of the fonektd Whose junior adherents they were when Louis Philippe fel. With these persons, who bave learbed but little im their forced retirement, there are united others Whose political remimiscences belong to the period betore 1830, when their lathers were, among tie classes eS They are ail ‘very respectabie, out, with the exception of the Duc Decazes, very unit jor the cares Oo government. Most of them are Wen be- tween filty-live and sixty-five, and from their politcal inexperience and increasing yeare wii alter a little wile, cease to play their part shoul the Empire be restored under Napoleon Quatre, The more aged servants of the late Emperor will hardly be young and active enough to support the | renovated throne. Kouher, Fleury, Grammont and Others, though they may lay ciaim to lucrative | posts, will no longer be fit to render effective service. Between the aged servants of Napoleon Ili, and the younger adherents of his son there 18 a wide gap, a8 the mea between orty-five ana fifty- five mostiy belong to another party. Accordingly, the Empire, (00, will be obiiged to rely upon young | men, itis the same thing with the Repubiie; if Gambetta assumes the reins of government he | wail have to surround himself chiefly with young However vencuresome it may be to pro- it 18 still pretty ceriain that Jess than ten years hence few 01 those now influential will be alive or politically active, We shall then find our- selves face to face with @ clags of statesen who will regard the mistortune of 1870 not a8 & lesson, but as a reasoa jor despising those whom they succeed in the direction of affairs, It is the same in the army. It, therefore. 1 is asked what France will think a few years hence avout peace and war less weight ought ww be attached to the opinion of ber present than the characters, ambitions, traditions and talents of those who will then be atthe elm. There can be no doubt that these luture ruiers, Whose younger brothers wil be in the army as Voloniaires Wun an, will regard @ settlement with Germany as the task for their generawon.” BISMARCK AND FRENCH POLITICS. {Prom the London Times.) The most important are those which relate to French parties, the estimation tn which they were respectively held by the German statesmen and the expectations which were based upon each, The legitimists ane, of course, much pleased at the publication of Prince Bismarck’s views on the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, Let France, they cry triumphantly, be taught by an enemy. men. The Prussians believed that if France restored the | Comte de Chambord she would Ond alliances among the great sovereigns of Europe, whereas ty she remained republican abe would be isolated, unpitied and feeble, What better proof can there be that the success of the fusion and the enthrone- ment of Henri V. would bave veen the salvation ot the country, fhe Royalists lave @ good right epieneay this argument to their country- men, and tt seems to cause lor the moment some embarrassment to the liberals. But the time at whica the despatch waa written ana the circum- stances that suggested it should be considered, The indemnity was owing, and, if we are not nis- taken, Prince Bismarck nimseli thought it would | be along time vefore the ftlual istaliments were paid. The Germans at the beginning did not anticipate the great success Of the loan, or the readiness with which France contrived to bear \Waxauon, A long time alterwards we filud the am- bassador forming the most gloomy estimates of French finances. Prinee Bismarck, toward the close 0! 1871, evidently had a nouon that great | Skid and caution would be neeaiul to ovtain | payment, and he imagined tnat tu Henrt VY. were restored, France, exhausted by her aisburse- ments, wouid appeal to the other great monarch- ical states as intercessors. Tne jealousy of one of them, according to Prince Bismarck, only wanted Qn excuse (ur au appeal to Bertin. But shat the resturauon of the Count de Chambord shouid be equally a political advantage now that the indem- Dity ig paid and the soli o: France Is (ree 1s another question. The only benefit a Bourbon Kingdom could now derive irom the goodwill of an Austrian. | ora Russian Emperor would be an alliance ina war ol revenge against Germany. Now, there is a very great difference between such a compact as shat and the benevolent interierence which Prince Bismarck areaded in the interests of the German Exchequer. [t does not af all ollow that because the sovereigns would be glad to help a brother in dificuities, and make bis vew throne more easy for him, they wouid thereiore join in an aggressive war carried on by ever revolutionary France under what might prove the temporary fag of monarchy. Inueed, we believe tuat a feelny of the very contrary character Ey Si be generated. A chie! danger &! monarchy in France 1s that the necessities Of the sovereigh’s position and the be- ef that he must do something tor the reputation of himself and bis dynasty woald lead toa rest- Jesa aud defiant policy, ending in 40 early war Without an aily at all: for any initiative on the part of France would draw the tnree Emperors to- getuer at once. The best hope of France 18 to wait uniil some event has weakened the bonds ion, 4 DOn-monarchical governmeut—cali it dep- tennate or Republic—can wait more patiently than any chief of a dynasty. One oi the things which has now itttle more than a bygone imtverest, sO jast have political events succeeded each other, is the opinion which Count Arntm expresses of M. Thiers. Considering | thatthe then President was engaged heart and | Soul in raising the money to pay Count Arnim’s countrymen, and that bis abilily im this respect was appreciated in every commercial centre in the world, the Count might have had a little regard for him, But in a despatch dated sanuary 22, 1872, he boils over with butred of Thiers. Such a com- munication irom an Ambassador respecting the | chef of the government to which he 1s accredited | it bas never been our lotto read. Count Arnim | has no high opinion of the Versailles Assembly, but the Assembly 13 at any rate better tuan M. | fniers. The two parties, the President and the Aasembly, are, says the Ambassador, | like two dueilists who find that to wet their powder with tears of tenderness is wiser than to put themselves in danger. The question relates to raw materials, and Count Arnim thus expresses | himself:—“M, Thiers has given a new proof of his Inabulty to command himsell and to command otuers. In a discussion which lasted eighteen daya he spoke seventeen times, placing himself beiore the Assembly with @ sincere injatuation as the’one infalibie, and this on things of which lie knows notning at all. He has cited figures tne falsity of which have been proved; he has uttered theories which bave not found a single partisan in the Assembly * ” * he has lost timself little pueriie details; and, with ail these errors, with an irascibility truly Papal, like his colleague tm infailloiity, composed a dogma,” &c. The de- Spatcn is worth perusal, as showing that, i! Bis- | marck has a style, Aroim bimsei{ is not deficient, | A matter which bas given rise to some comment in Paris 18 the paragrapb in Coant Aroim’s de- spatch of May 4, 1872 The Bonaparusts, says the Ambassador, think thas the Assembly will end by naming @ dictator—MacMahon or Cissey. These have pledged themselves t> Make an appeal to the | people, which, say the Bonapartiats, will be favor. abie to Napoleon. The Bonapartists count on our support. “1 tomk we ought bot to repel the Bonapartists, They meditate no totrigue agaiust the present government. They are aiso the only Shes who openly seek our support, while the other factions avoid ‘all relations witu us and toscribe the word ‘Revenge’ on their flag.” Of course, the ehemtes of the Bonapartists are ready to make the Most of tH13, especially a3 & passage in one of Une despatches of Prince Bismarck himself points to the same disposition as noticed oy him ip the Same party. hus we find the legitimista elated at the honor of the Germaad Chanceilor’s distrust, while his supposed gvod Will (alls upon the Bona Partists ike w poisoned rove. It is probable that in eluuer case there is equally little practical im- portance in the revelatiol. Bazaime’s negouw tions at Metz may have established some relauons between the wen of the Empire aud she conquer. ors. Tuese may Dave continued to subsist aod have given che appearances which Count Aroun describes. Sut thatany Frenct party ts likely to be permanently friendly to Germany 18 an illaston to be dismissed, as the Germans, iD ‘act, soon dis- missed it, A COMMUNIST'S VIEW OP THE cASE. Paschal Grousset, who was “Secretary of Foreign the Pimes:— Many columns have already deen written re- specting the Count Aruim papers, dul your Most remarkable leader of this day 18 about she only article that pouits to the true inteat of their pub- Ucation, It is evident to those who recognize in Prince Bismarck a superior statesman and who read these documents attveativeiy, that, if the; have not been writven fom beginning to end wit! @ view to their present Paulo sion, AF Svenis the necessary effects o: their publication have been deuberatery weighed, Phe manner tn which it has been brought about ily followed by In- Terence, if one admit! tuce Bismarck—like & good disciple of Machiavelli—takes good cure never to write auysiing Wich cagnot sooner or jater be publisned and whiok does not ; Incline toward the ends of his general | Policy, Some weeks ago, when these three-vear- old documents came again ander his notice, tt struck lim, no doubt, that their publication aught | be advantageous, and he decided on it. That these | advantages were limited to the exposure oi tis | relations with Count Arnim and the latter's post | granted. In order to attain that object it would baye ad 40 alalyae tue misswg pa rulers | which uuite tuese sovereigns. and, in our opin- | in | these laise assertions, these pesty matters, he has, | J, Aflairs” under the Commune, writes as follows to | on With his governments cannot de for a moment | 5: pers, or to have quoted only certain or Per ape a question trial was especially s of facts, Prince Bismarck must, therefore, have found in the publication of some of the papers—a publication, by the by, 80 extraordinary and ab- Dormal—other and clear advantages. [n order to arrive at them 16 suffices to note und study the two most salient points of, and those most com- mented on, in this correspondence -— (a) Funes Biachars Seciares ans, in the inter. est, ALY, wairable M. Thiers suoul remain {i powse™ (0) He afirms that the restoration of # mon- chy would aiford to France greater chances of | Sbtata jng alliances than (ue Republic aoes. What point of view is it necessary to take ap ia order to sieze the intent of these declarations? Evidently the letters only ought not wo ve stndied. ein thé first mstance notice mast be taken of the period at which they were drawn up, and aiso of the date at which they were made Known to the . public, So doing one is immediately struck with the following acts :~ | 1. That, when these despatches were written, M. | There’ was, im the eyes o! tne Germans, the best | Ol French governments, since he did not, in fact, | Tepresent tae Repubiic, bus submission’ to the Victor, peace at ahy price, payment of the war indemnity. 2 That it Prince Bismarck, well knowing the tn- | Jarieus effects that his (avor wall have ip French | hearts on bis protég’, now publishes these optn- | ions held three years ago, it is tuat they are ther- oughly changed, and tuat he fears pothing 60 Much ag the return of the Left Ceutre to power—a token and prelude w toe consotidation of the Re- public—that 18 to say, the coming accession of | republicans; snd Prince Bismarck 18 not ignorant Ol their being the true national party. & Those views are contirmed by the stress lid by nim on the monarchical party, on letting acci- dentally drop his opinion tuat the monarchy alone | Wouid be able to make alliances, This opinion | beid good three years ayo, and Prince Bismarck | no doubt heid it at that period, or, a8 the Times ovserved very seusibly, be Wight fear pot pre Cisely alliances, Lut at least infuences interven- ing 1p his money transacuons With che Vanquished country, in casé @ monarchical restoration vad | taken piace, But ali that has lost its weight now | that France has paid the five milliards and set ap again its scattered force, and Prince Bismarck is too mach of # business man Lot io be aware shat at the present time, if ever, alliances are not made ‘ough sympathy, and no monarchical Power tn Earope would hesitate (were such @ case tocome about) to accept the support of French army, were sucn au army eighteen bun- dred thoasan) times over republican. In conclasion, Prince Bismarck bas decided on the publicauion of his special opinions of three years ago lor the very reason that times and | @veuts have modilied them in & diametricaily Op- | posite seuge. It suits his policy to lead men Ww be- Iteve that he sees a benetiy tu the consolidation of @ republic in France for the very reason that De knows that itis tne only form of government by which France can re-establish hersell, Lastly, above these special aims is the intention of mak- ing France velleve that ner true interests at home and abroad are identified with those of monarchy anu Papacy. | But, luckily, there still remains in the country of Diderot and Voltaire sufficient sense not to be taken in by tricks, She will no more confound the | national cause with that of che ultramontanes than she will confound Prince Bismurck with & disinterested adviser. ours. £6. Lam, sir, 7 Lonpon, Dec, 18, PASOHAL GROUSSET. KULLMANN’S PISTOL, At & parilamentary reception at Prince Bis marck’s, two of the guests wandered into the Princess's Mbrary, where they found a pistol lying apon the writing table. While they were handling it the dangerous toy was discharged, forvunately without doing any barm. It was Kuilmann’s Pistol, loaded with ball cartridge. CRUELTY TO CHILDREN. MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENs i ‘TION OP CRUELTY TO CHILDREN. | A meeting of the Executuve Committee of the | Soctety tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was held yesterday afternoon at the rooms of Mr. Bergh, No. 100 East Twents-second street, for the | Purpose of getting the association in working or der. Mr. E, Fellows Jenkins was appointed Super- intendent, and requisite steps were taken to pro- | vide a proper office for the society’s oMfcials, AS | the concluston of the committee's proceedings a general meeting o/ those interested in the object and purposes of the society was held, The atvend- | ance was quite Jarge, the majority being ladtes, | ana the interest manifested was intense. After |a@ few preliminary remarks by the Presi+ dent, the counsel of the society, Mr. Elbridge ‘t. Gerry, stated its object. The want of such | an association had long been felt; an association | whicn should compel a recognition of the fact that cnildren have some rights. He emphatically | dented that the society had any sectarian purpose, | and stated that the chiidren rescued through its | instrumentality would be sent, as the law pro- vides, to those charitable institutions conducted according to the faith 1n which such children were born as near a3 could be ascertained, The inten- | ton was to enforce the law for the protection of the little ones, which has heretofore been | neglected, as it has been the especial business of | Boone. He recited several cases of heartrending | erueity to children, to pat astop to whic and | the like was to be the business of she society. At the suggestion of Mr. Bergh the ladies were called upon jor a few remarks, In response to which Mrs. Martha Davis, Who announced herself as a erand- mother, made @ feeling speech, lauding the pur poses of the meeting, Mr. Bergh wished to correct the impression thas | had gos abroad that the soctety was likely to m- terfere between the parent and the child. Notbing | was further from its intenuon, He was an ad- | Vocate of wholesome whipping; had derived dene- fictal effects from it when be was a boy. He, also | quoted “Mr. Solomon” as an authority for nis position. He objected to the term “brute,” plied by @ previous speaker to drunken, crue’ | parents, aud said nis clents never got drunk an@ | hever beat anybody. He thought officers and citi- zens would stand feeds. to ald the society im its. | efforts to enforce the law. } THE “FARMING OUT’ SYSTEM | Was referred to, in which, as he stated, infants | were placed in tamiltes living in cellars and damp | Places, and money paid to get them out of the way. | Ge wi upon the society the propriety of look- ing out only for the more striking and outrageous samples of cruelty at first, and until its aims and purposes were known and It became understood. that no impertinent tuterierence betw ep pa | rents or guardians and children Was thtended, | peor De Lucca, the Itatian Consal, who is ® member of the Executive Committee, being called upon, referred to the employment of Italian chil- dren as street musicians, now for the most part | bappily broken ap. since tis arrival here, in 1867, this subject bad attracted nis attention, and through his representationssa law had passed the ‘talian Varlament to prevent the sale of cnildren for such purpose, The enforcement of the taw Pe last winter by the New York Legislatare ad cleared the streets of Itahan children ander sixteen years of age. Mr, W. 8, Andrews, formerly member of the | Assembly, called atteation to a bill intended to | remedy the very evils for which this society had been iormed, which ue had tntrodacea into the Lower House tn 1868, aad which had passed shat dody, Dut had deen laughed Out ef the Benate. At the suggestion of Mr, verry he promised +o jurnish the society with a copy 0; the bill. On motion of Mr. Bergh Mr. Andrews was made a member of the society, and a large aumover of aames of those present, mostly ladies, Was afterward banded to the ‘ey aga end the owners admitted to mem- bership. Mr, Swinton, being present, was called on, and in responding hoped the regenerative principle which science does not affurd might oe found in this movement. He patoted a irightial picture of the 200,000 children to be found in the tenement houses of this city, brought ap ander the most de- moraiizing influences. bere are 6,000 children tn tue city, irom four to tweive years old, laboring from early morn until late at night in close rooms, woe feud atmospuere of which ts deadty. Only a society like this coaid apply the remedy. Other speeches were made, in which almost every form oi cruelty to children, as ipeaccioe was depicted, and the meeting adjourne ine Executive Committee is energetically at work putting the mactinery of the society in operation, and ts Will doubtiess soon be heard of verore the courts, It 18 thought that the very ex- istence of the society, when once it becomes | Known, wilt go far toward putting a atop to many o/ the crueities practised on chudren, ? GRAVEYARD DESECRATION,» ~\ oe ” Over 200 years ago, when the to~ ‘ | was iaid oat and settled by ada heniesece from Connecticut, there wae Dow the heart gy the Oleg, , burying ground. VeSontinn ; Une wito! 1 thé | Pierson, t apart, in what is irge plot for a public ed to be used as each §@iarter of a centary or #0. Init te Governor Pennington, Abranam Newark, “tnd ave” ne Same or” ue . Place in Englan sna “ot @ iegion of the of forefathers and /oremot of the F. #8 of Newark and other parte of New Jersey. It fell into deouy aud became @ pubtic Seatiea und and the scene of all sorte ry of aesecratio: articie in the HBRALD, givi | eketches of ite distinguished ana ot tr . scandalous negligence of the aut who law are sworn to Keep the burial ground in Gecent | Condition, stirred ap th Bed end straight. \ way the piace where lay “ rade thers of the hainiev’ was made quite decent. Now, how- ever, it is used again a8 @ dumping ground for Street refuse, to the scandal } shawe of the antharstiysy ES 008