Prince Bismarck is learning by experience. According to a special
telegram to the Pall Mall Gazelle, he has issued an order dissolving the Press Bureau, out of displeasure at its indiscretions during the recent war panic. He is right. A Moniteur may often be useful, and under some forms of government may be almost indispensable, but a semi-official Press invariably does mis- chief. It is not controlled like a Moniteur, yet it is trusted when- ever it threatens as if it were, while its eulogies create no gratifi- cation. Its conductors are almost sure to say more than their chief means, or if they respect his instructions exactly, they are so tame that nobody pays them the necessary attention. If Prince Bismarck wants to be heard without writing despatches, he should confine himself to a recognised Moniteur.
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