7 SEPTEMBER 1861, Page 1

During a meeting of the National Union, at Heidelberg, a

society which represents about 20,000 Germans, and is intended to promote German fusion, a brawl arose between some young Englishmen pre- sent and the Germans. It seems pretty certain that the English in- terfered in some arrogant way with the rites of German patriots, and got a deserved thrashing for their pains. The Heidelberg students are not the mildest of civilized beings, and it would be well if the valgarer class of English travellers never came into collision with opponents less sturdy and determined. It would be a wholesome dis- cipline.