On Thursday night Lord Palmerston said in reply to Lord
John Manners that the Prussian army did pass the frontier of Jutland, and took up a position at a place called Bolding. In answer to re- presentations addressed to Berlin, " we were informed that that operation was not only without orders but against orders, and that, in consequence, the commander of the forces on the spot would be reprimanded. But it was added that, the occupation of that place being of great strategical value for the security of the allied troops in Schleswig, the occupation would, nevertheless, be continued." The occupation was, we suppose, " contrary to orders " hi the same sense in which when a schoolmaster points out an uncommonly obnoxious person to his boys, and says to them, " On no account snowball that man," it is contrary to orders to do so. The con- duct of Austria and Prussia, especially Prussia, throughout this German business has been a tissue of hypocrisy and fraud.
