Prussia has gained this week one compensation for her losses.
She is rid of her Minister of Education. Herr Miihler, a man entitled to the distinction of being at once the feeblest and the most obstinate obscurantist that ever lived. A fiddler has driven him from his place. Herr Joachim is superintendent of the Berlin Academy of Music, which is one of the institutions under the Ministry of Education. A teacher in the Academy offended the Minister in some way, and Herr Miihler ordered his dismissal. Herr Joachim thereupon resigned, but the King, reviewing the affair, ordered him to resume his functions, and made him inde- pendent of the education department. It was then Herr Maier's turn to resign, and he has not been reinstated, to the gratification, we imagine, of all Germany, which is never tired of laughing at a Minister whose one notion of instruction is the diffusion of a feeble kind of evangelicalism by force.
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