Count Herding, the Ultramontane Minister-President of Bavaria, has been appointed
imperial Chancellor and Minister-President of Prussia in place of Herr Michaelis, the obscure official who took the poet on July 14th last and failed to please his master or any party in Germany. Count Herding was for many years the head of the German Centre or Roman Catholic Party, and be is said to have great personal influence at the Vaticau. His appointment has given great offence to the Prussian Conservatives, who do not care to see a Bavarian acting as the ohief Prussian Minister. But Count Herding is as stout a reactionary as any Junker, and has success. fully opposed every attempt at reform in his own State. His selection by the Emperor was in no sense a concession to democratic pressure, but was obviously actuated by a desire to promote closer relations with the Papacy, which Germany desires to employ as an agent for securing peace on her own terms.
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