The King of Prussia has resolved, it is said, to
make further advances towards constitutional Government. The responsibility of Ministers, a fact never yet admitted, is to be settled by law, almost on the English basis. A reform is to be introduced into the House of Lords, which will, it is imagined, tend to restrict the somewhat feudal tone of that body. The elected division are now chosen by all noble owners of land, and it is proposed to strike all whose rental is less than 800/. a year from the list of electors. The wealthy noblesse in Prussia, as everywhere else, are far more liberal in feeling than the lesser proprietors. The right to administer the police on their own estates is also to be transferred to the State, and the yeomanry are to join in electing the county magistrates, now selected only by larger proprietors. These measures will require the creation of a numerous body 'of Peers, and will probably modify the whole tone and attitude of the Prussian Upper House to the Lower. At present, the Upper House, except upon money questions, is the more powerful of the two.
