NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Prussian Committee have brought up to the House an ad- dress refusing the special supplies asked for the King to support his contingent to the Federal Execution in Schleswig-Holstein, on the ground that Prussia is not adopting in the question of the Duchies the popular policy recommended by the Chamber, and it seems certain that this address will be voted. Count Bismark is said to have replied to the Committee that he was only waiting a suitable opportunity to break through the treaty of 1852, but the Committee would not trust him, and assured the King that they do not wish to press upon Denmark the fulfilment of the compromise effected in 1851-2, but rather to sweep away that compromise altogether, to restore the old theory of an indissoluble union between Schleswig and Holstein, and to acknow- ledge the dynasty of the Duke of Augustenbrirg.
