25 JANUARY 1879, Page 2

There is, moreover, much doubt whether the Liberals in the

Reichstag would vote for Prince Bismarck's Bill. On Thursday, Herr Heeremanu brought forward in the Prussian Diet a motion directing the Government to resist the measure in the Federal Council, and though this was not carried, for prudential reasons, a motion that the House should pass to the order of the day, brought forward by a Conservative, was rejected by 299 to 62. Moreover, the following resolution was passed without a divi- sion :—" The Chamber of Deputies, while rejecting the proposal of Herr Heeremann, declares that the existing guarantees of liberty of speech and the independent standing regulations for the transaction of the business of Parliament and the discipline of its Members constitute the essential bases of the Prussian as well as of the Imperial Constitution ; and that with regard to the Bill introduced in the Federal Council, the protection of its con- stitutional rights can be safely left to the Reichatag itself." The German Parliament is not so Liberal as the Prussian one, but still the prominent Prussian Members all sit in the larger body.