The Journal des Debuts of Thursday quotes from two German
papers letters written at Berlin on the 13th and 18th instant, concerning the arrest of several persons accused of promoting Communist opinions. "The affair," says the Nuremberg Correspondent of the 13th, "assumes a grave aspect, and the documents are already voluminous. Arrests take place daily, even amongst the highest classes; and the uneasiness is general. It is stated positively that many towns of the kingdom are gravely compromised. Among the new prisoners is remarked an individual who is believed to be the agent of the
poet H— Herweg, we presume; who is now in England.] Paris and Swit- zerland are the central points of the machinations from which our capital suffers. The aim of these criminal attempts is to revolutionize the lowest classes of the population, and even to gain the soldiers by the clandestine circulation of printed papers in the barracks."
From an obscure paragraph in the Universal German Gazette, the plot appears to have been magnified by informers. The only share that France seems to have had in the matter was the fact that the denunciation to the authorities was made in the French language. M. Behrends, a candidate in theology, who was among the persons arrested, denied all intention to agitate the working classes. There had been meetings of some kind, but their precise object is not stated. Several of the persons arrested have been set at liberty.
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