It is stated positively by the Times' correspondent at Berlin
that Count Arnim, the present German Ambassador at Paris, is to succeed the late Count Bernstorff as Ambassador to the- Queen of England, and that General Manteuffel, the Commander of the Army of Occupation, will be the new Ambassador to the- French Republic. This is probably a change which might be made almost at once, even before the occupation terminates. Von Manteuffel has had so much to do with the negotiation, that he must be almost as an fait at it as Count Arnim himself.. The French appointment sounds rather like sending a First. Commissioner of Police to negotiate with a discharged prisoner, but Manteuffel is said to be personally very popular, and pro- bably the German Government thinks that to clothe the person of their ambassador, even involuntarily, with some of the most warning of the associations of the past, will save the necessity of explicit and still more humiliating reminders.
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