4 JUNE 1864, Page 1
The papers are full of the annoyances to which English
travel- lers are subjected in Prussia. Officials snap their fingers in their faces, hotel-keepers refuse them beds, and the mob groans and spits as only a German mob can. During the height of the Russian war Russians were as safe in London as in St. Peters- burg, were, indeed, rather lionized. But then the Prussians are a civilized people, full of education, and the quality they call Empfindsamkeit, boys, in fact, with boys' good humour and boys' incapacity for self-restraint.
