German affairs have indeed occupied the week. Besides the Arnim
trial, there have been two debates of importance in the German Parliament. The first was raised by Dr. Jiirg, leader of the Bavarian Catholics, who complained that the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federal Council was never consulted, and that consequently Prince Bismarck had intervened in Spain in a way which had dissolved the entente cordiale between Germany and Russia. The Chancellor replied, that although the Foreign Affairs Committee had not been convened for a year, the German Governments had been fully consulted, and that as to Spain, he had felt that no English or American Correspondent would have been murdered as Captain Schmidt was. According to the Times' Correspondent, he added that international law would have justified him in landing on the coast of Spain, seizing a Carlist officer, and hanging him in reprisal ; but it is probable this astounding assertion was not made, as the Cologne Gazette reports that he prefaced it by saying "if we had been a bar- barous Power," a very different thing. He had acknowledged the only Government in Spain possessed of a relic of authority, and if Russia had not done so, why Captain Schmidt was not a Russian. Dr. JOrg had alluded to the attempt of linlimann, calling him a maniac, and Prince Bismarck, in tones of suppressed fury, denied this, declared that Kullmann avowed himself a member of the Centre fraction, and turning to Herr Windhorst, the leader of that party, exclaimed to the Centre, "Discard the man as much as you like, he is hanging to your coat-tails never-
theless." This insult was received by the majority with enthusiasm, and by the Centre with cries of " Pfuil"—" Shame, shame!" to which the Chancellor retorted that he also wanted to cry " Pfui I" but was prevented by good manners. Herr Wind- horst's reply in substance was that the Prince, by giving a cue to • 'his papers to attack all Ultramontanes, had brought Dr. JOrg's assault upon himself.
