The King of Prussia opened his Parliament on November 9th
in a speech of excessive length, which has been differently under- stood. Our interpretation will be found in another column, but we are bound to observe that the language of the King on the necessity of maintaining the new organization of the army was most peremptory, and that accounts concur in believing accommo- dation out of the question. The distrust of the country seems as yet too deeply rooted. The last expression, too, of the speech is a distinct re-affirmation of the King's old stupid idea that the only constitutional right of the Chambers is to support him. "The solution of the internal question," he said, " can only be attained if the power of the Royal Government, indispensable for the Prus- sian monarchy, be maintained unimpaired, and if in the exercise of your constitutional rights t be supported by you in the fulfilment of my duties as King." That is just the idea of the Stuarts, laid aside only in front of Whitehall.
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