Deputy George von Bunsen made a curious statement in the
• Prussian Chamber on the 2nd December, in the course of the debate on Schlessvjg-Holstein. He said, on ,he authority of his father, the Chevalier, who was at the time of the Crimean war the Prussian Ambassador in London, that, at the beginning of that war, "Prussia could have obtained, as the price of her accession to thehlliance of theithetern Powers against Russia, the regulation of the question of. the Duchies in the national sense ; " and that his father, Baron Bunsen, used every effort to gain for her that boon atihat price, but was tiasuccessful with the then Ministry. He repeated, in answer to NL. von Bismark, that "a positive offer was made by one of the Western Powers that, at the price mentioned, the regu- lation of the question of the Duchies in the national sense should be left to Prussia." M. von Bismark, who was at that time Prus- sian Minister at Frankfort, and could scarcely have kaewn any-
thing of tI tter, denied the statement ; and M. von der Heydt, who was adinate member of the then Government, said that he, at least, knew nothing of the matter.
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