The Prussian Deputies voted yesterday week by a majority of
207 to 107 the address prepared by Herr von Sybel advising the King not to enforce, but to break through, the arrangements of 1852, and set up once more a united Schleswig-Holstein, under the Duke of Augustenberg. The Prime Minister, M. von Bismark, made a speech, composed of alternate menaces and baits, in vain. "This Schleswig-Holstein question," he said, " haa its two sides, the Federal and the international ; the demand as yet made cor- responds only with the first side. If we name Schleswig, which we hitherto have not named, the international side of the question comes into play, and at the same time arises the necessity to demand fifty or one hundred millions." It was all of no use. If M. von Bismark had not yet " named " Schleswig, the Assembly had named nothing else. Holstein is no allurement, for Holstein is unalterably German. It is the excitement of extracting the Ger- man cheese from the Danish trap which so exalts this remarkable Tuetonic imagination. And, accordingly, the Assembly defeated the Ministers by a majority of 100, leaving Conservatives, Poles, Ultramontanes, and about 30 members of the left centre and pro- gress party, in a minority of 107.
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