NEWS OF THE WEEK.
PRINCE BISMARCK has been resigning again. The Courts arrested Herr Majuncke, Member of the Reichstag and Editor of the Germania, the Ultramontane organ, who is under sentence for some Press offences, but supposed he would be protected by his Parliamentary privilege. Thereupon Herr Hoverbeck, of the National Liberal party, moved that Mem- bers be not arrested during the Session, and this was carried. Prince Bismarck accepted this as a personal attack, threatened to resign, and asked his brother-in-law to say so in the lobbies of the House. The Deputies, however, persevered, and a modified resolution, by Herr Lasker, condemning the arrest of Members without the previous consent of the Parliament, was substi- tuted. The Prince thereupon tendered his resignation, which, however, it is certain the Emperor will not accept. There is no evidence whatever that the majority intended their vote as an attack upon the Prince, or anybody else. They only desired to maintain their independence, as they ought to have done when the Socialists were condemned for language uttered in Parliament. It is creditable to them to have stood up for so tuapopulara member of their body as Herr Majuncke.
