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Professor Jacoby has been released, with all his fellow vic-

tims, except the socialists, and the King has ordered that no more political arrests should be made. Political meetings, moreover, are to be allowed. The pretext for this order is a desire that the elections should be free, but the reason is probably the great irritation felt by the Liberals and Southerners at these despotic measures. The King, who has still to draw the South into the Union, has, therefore, given way, and overridden General Von Fal- kenstein. The meeting of this Parliament will tell us whether there is any real opposition in Germany to the annexation of Metz, which the Staeasanzeiger again affirms the Germans must keep.