The King of Prussia has dissolved his Parliament, on the
recommendation of his great Minister, Ton Bismark, who appeals to the people to support him in resisting the Austrian scheme of supplanting Prussia in the German Union. The Prussians are, no doubt, anxious that Prussia shall lead their United Germany, if ever united it be,—but they will not respond to the appeal,—first because they do not think the Austrian scheme can bear any useful fruit, and next because they are quite sure that if Von Bismark is to be their Minister Prussia can never find even her own way rightly, and much less lead others. It is officially declared thas the elections will be conducted on the old plan, though Re- actionists had been hoping and giving out that they were to be regulated by a new ordinance of a very reactionary kind. Probably the King will not venture this, though we dare not hope that he intends to dismiss his present advisers if the new Parliament is hostile to them.
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