The news from abroad is more curious than important. In
Prussia the Diet has closed, with an outward preservation of decorum both in Monarch and Parliament, but not with a very satisfactory feeling on either aide. Both parties, it is understood, regard the session as a failure : the King thinks that the naughty zaembers have not been nearly such good children as gratitude ought to have made them ; the Members are disgusted with the Monarch's trifling ; and as the vast preponderance of intellectual staength is on their side, there can be no doubt as to the ultimate result. The session has not been fruitless, for it has established
and defined political positions. ae scandals continue to furnish more and more food • .>. The Chamber of Peers has resolved on the public
M. Teste and General Cubieres' M. Parmentier, 0 • •*!k • complice. The recriminations of M. Cubieres and sclose the most unblushing fraud on their own at M. Teste the evidence is said to be weak: he seems to have been "victimized.'-' Net. content with his release, M. Emile Girardin has got up a mock-heroic scene in the Cham- ber of Deputies: M. Duchatel gave him the lie direct, and M. Girardin hinted at a. challenge. Finally, a new Minister is ac- cused of equivocal conduct : in the recent debates, M. Duchatel said that for a Minister to hold railway shares would be " infa- mous "—" infamous!" echoed M. Guizot : M. Cunin Gridaine and Son, a firm in which the Minister of Commerce is partner, hold railway shares. M. Cunin Gridaine says he did not know it.
In Spain, Don Francisco de Paula has been called to account for belonging to divers secret societies, among others to one called "the Avengers of Alibaud " ! It seems, however, that the poor Prince meant no harm : it is only a way he had of being " Liberal."
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