28 JUNE 1873, Page 3

An organ of the German Conservatives, the Weekly Journal, while

congratulating England on the appointment of Count Munster as Ambassador, remarks, "With regard to the great freedom existing in England, we never hesitate to charac- terise what appears to us to be a sacrifice of the great State idea to a materialist and egotistical tendency too lavishly surrounded with political liberty. But our sympathies need not therefore be questioned ; they come again unimpaired to the surface, at the moment when a high policy obtains once more in England its fitting position, an attitude which no State has ever yet renounced with impunity." What is this "high policy " ?