The Times hints, we believe correctly, that a silent struggle
is going on in the Prussian Cabinet. Count von Bismarck is weary of some of his colleagues, particularly of the Minister of the Interior, a man of the old repressive school, and of the Minister of Eccle- siastical Affairs, a bigoted man of the slightly mystical orthodoxy so popular in the late reign, and demands their removal. The King supports them strongly, but the King wants more money for his army, and cannot get it without a vote, which vote the Liberals refuse unless the obnoxious Ministers are removed, and themselves allowed to vote the new taxes for termin- able periods. The King, who can scarcely fight Parlia- ment alone, can certainly not fight it and his Premier together, and would probably yield without a contest, but that he at heart dislikes Count von Bismarck's ascendancy, and is annoyed to hear the credit of his victories ascribed to a servant. In this position of affairs the voice of the Crown Prince would probably turn the scale ; but the Crown Prince, though favourable to the Parliamentary majority, dislikes and distrusts the Premier. The result therefore, will probably depend upon the balance in the Treasury which the King can expend in an ad interim enlargement of the Army.
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