The Prussian crisis has taken an unexpected turn. me majority
in the Herrenhaus have agreed not to resist the County Organisa- tion Bill, aud the Conservatives in the Ministry have advised the King that a creation of Peers would not be required. The Liberal Ministers, however, threatened to resign, whereupon the King, after twice summoning Bismarck, who twice pleaded illness, split the difference and created twenty-five Peers, all of them Generals, high officials, and large landowners, and all as Conser- vative as could be wished. Neither the Education Bills nor the Catholic Bills will get through at this rate, and the King has over- borne the Upper House for nothing. We suppose the secret of the whole matter is the illness of the Crown Prince, who alone can really influence his father in the Liberal direction.
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