Count von Bismarck apparently cannot get on with his House
of Lords. That body has never reconciled itself to the aunexa- tions, and strongly resisted a Government motiou to adjourn the Diet, so as to allow of the meeting of the North-German Parliament. The Chancellor at last grew so excited with the opposition that he told the Peers that in their House Prus- sia and North Germany were always treated as conflicting Powers, that Prussia must do as the other Confederates did, and that if they could not agree to that course " then our paths diverge so greatly that we may perhaps not meet again." The meaning of that, we imagine, is that the Chancellor, if too much worried, will fulfil the desire of the Liberals, and make the Confederate Parliament, iu which there is no House of Lords, the solitary legislative body. He may not be drifting towards Liberalism, but he is clearly drifting away from the Junkers.
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