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Count von Bismarck has received unlimited leave of absence, and

intends, it is said, to remain three months away from Berlin. He is to receive no despatches, write no letters, and transact no business. A French paper declares that he is suffering from delirium tremens, produced by a habit of swallowing small doses of brandy ; but the truth seems to be that the Count has been liable of late to attacks of nervous prostration, which, in a less powerful frame, would threaten either paralysis or disease of the heart. In his absence, Count von Moltke will be the most trusted adviser of the King.

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