We have seen a letter from a German politician unusually
familiar with the currents of opinion in Germany, in which he accounts for the weakness of the German National Liberals. He says they have lost two-thirds of their seats for opposing Prince nisi:ire:trek, and if they continued opposition would lose the remainder. The suffrage is universal, and the electors, Socialists excepted, declare everywhere that " Bismarck knows what he is about, that he wants to complete his work, and that he shall be let alone." This loyalty is personal, but it is complete, and at present immov: ble. He adds that the idea of biennial Parliaments is not as bad as it looks. The local Parliaments, especially the Prussian, would sit in the recess years of the German Parliament, and would be more prominent and efficient; the present system, under which members elected to both Parliaments sit for nine months consecutively, being unendurable. The Liberal members do their work in the patient Germ an fashion, and become quite bedazed with labour. The writer, we may add, is a Liberal " dyed in the wool."
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