The North-German Gazette, the official organ of Count Bis- marck,
says other revelations are at hand. Prince Napoleon, it says, on his visit to Berlin, threw out hints about the French- speaking cantons of Switzerland, and declared that in Piedmont it was impossible to decide where French ended and Italian began. The German Chancellor himself adds that in 1866 Napoleon offered to aid him against Austria with 300,000 troops, in return for the cession of certain districts on the Rhine. All these statements are intended to increase the isolation of France in Europe, already nearly complete, and all, whether true or false, indicate one curious fact. The Hohenzollerns do not intend to end this war without the dethronement of the Bonapartes. 'They never would have betrayed the Emperor so completely, if they had expected ever to negotiate with him again. We did much the same thing just before the Crimean war, publishing the Czar's offer of Egypt and Candle, and we suppose it is all right ; but somehow, such revelations leave in the minds even of those who profit by them a lurking doubt whether, if such confidences are to be betrayed, diplomacy is any longer possible. The lawyer's evidence is being taken against his client.
