There has been plenty of fresh news of no great
value concern- ing the meeting of the Emperors and its object. It is asserted in several different quarters that the Emperor Francis mooted the subject of the Treaty of Prague in reference to the promise of the restoration to Denmark of the Danish part of Schleswig, but that the Emperor William, or his great Chancellor,—either with or without professing a wish to satisfy Denmark,—declared the occasion inopportune for discussing it. Perhaps,—
" The Chancellor sedate and vain,
In courteous words returned reply, But dallied with his golden chain, And, smiling, put the question by."
When, indeed, will a question on this subject be opportune? Germany does not willingly relax her grasp on territory. There is no contradiction published, however, to the statement that the Emperor Francis did not regard the occasion an inopportune one for accepting the honorary command of the 16th Regiment of Schleswig-Holstein Hussars.
