The papers publish full accounts of the Confirmation of the
eldest son of the Crown Prince of Germany, which took place at Berlin on the 1st inst., and was attended by all members of the Ptotestant branch of the Hohenzollerns. There was nothing particularly interesting- in the ceremony, but the young Prince read a confession of faith coreposed by himself, which, if he really coMposed it, Might be interesting. We are told nothing about it, howeter, except that it described "Protestant tenets in plain and earnest words, betraying at moments the ardour of a lofty and elevated mind." Loftiness in Princes, one perceives, is not always elevated. Perhaps the most noteworthy incident in the affair was that the Lutheran clergyman who performed the ceremony took as the text for his address, "Fight the good fight of faith," and not the text which• members of this House have stch great need to ponder,—" All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.". _ • _
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