The King of- Prussia has written to Lord Russell to
thank him for communicating the resolution of the Exeter - Half meeting, which expressed sympathy with his Government in its struggle with the Roman Churoh. The King writes in his usual stately style, and is, no doubt, firmly convinced of the truth of what he says,—namely, that he accepts a battle " imposed upon- him in fulfilment of his kingly duties," and not rather one which his Government imposed upon itself, and to which it gave all the occasion. But it will be hardly thought in England to be a happy allusion on the part of Sing William, when he reminds Lord Russell that the German and English peoples are bound together " by the remembrance of-many a past and honourable struggle, maintained in common since the days of William of Orange." William of Orangawas an able ruler, but those Englishmen and Irishmen who most emulate his religious policy towards the Catholic Church have not succeeded in winning much political fame for themselves among their countrymen. Nor will Prussian Orangemen be likely to present to Europe a much more winning aspect than their Unlovely English and Irish prototypes..
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