In the Upper House of . the Prussian Diet, on Thursday,
Count Buinski protested against a paragraph in the Address to the Throne expressing gratitude to the Government for the measures adopted to prevent the spread of the Polish insurrection, and main- tained that its only object was the liberation of Poland from Russia. The PritneMinister replied with more than usual malignity. "Government," said Herr Von Bismark, "has a political, social, and moral interest in the movement in Russian Poland not being victorious. An independent Poland would always be a source of danger to the Prussian monarchy, and would occupy the greater portion of the army. We must not allow a move- ment to be successful which soils itself with unheard-of crimes, and which delights in the apotheosis of assassination." The Prussian Government, one sees, is quite ready for- closest alliance with Russia, and Herr Von Bismark is, we ear, right that the Poles delight in the apotheosis of assassination,—that is, in raising sesaasination into a sort of patriotic religion. The Russians do nothing of the kind. Alouravieff, too, delights in assassination and torture ; but it is not in deference to any passion of patriotic fanaticism,—it is the assassination of the brute, the assassination which the cat commits on the mouse when she is not hungry, and only wishes to enjoy the murder. M. Von Bismark's tine instincts lead him to prefer this to the blind and desperate patriotism which leads thelPolis to make this great though unholy sacrifice to their country.
