20 JANUARY 1872, Page 2

The German Correspondent, the demi-official organ of Berlin, announces that

the Minister of Education, Dr. von Miihler, perhaps the most perverse obscurantist in Europe, has at length resigned, and will probably be succeeded by Dr. Falk. The cause of the resignation is only hinted at, but it is rumoured that the Government, perplexed by the Ultramontanes on one side, the Voltairians on the other, and the orthodox between them, intends to make the State education much more secular. The Correspondent, however, only says that "owing to the events of the last few days, Dr. Miihler found his position becoming untenable on every side."