The Prussian Government has placed itself between two quar- rels;
and, curiously enough, it is upholding on one side a prin- ciple which it is assailing on the other.
The Prussian Minister has formally demanded from the FederaI Government of Switzerland the surrender of those rebels who were captured on the suppression of the Royalist revolt in Neu- chatel; and this demand is backed by Austria, Bavaria, and Baden. The prisoners had offended Swiss law, but have deserved well of Prussian royalty ; and the Suzerain of Neuchatel demands their surrender 'as a testimony to the superiority of the Royal over the Republican. Germany, however, is expected to be slow in practically backing his pretensions ; and he now begins to rest his hopes on the second Congress of Paris. Perhaps he will ask Russia to surrender the Bolgrad point, in order to facilitate the reassembling of that body. , - The other conflict is with Denmark, and it is the exact con- verse of the Neuchatel ease. The Federal rights which his Prus- sian Majesty contemns in Switzerland, he supports in Holstein ; and his Minister is systematically scolding the Danish Govern-' ment for swamping the representation and local government of Holstein in the new Danish consolidation. At present, however, King Frederick has the advantage of King Frederick William, since he has the "nine points of the law" with him.
