The Continent is greatly exercised because Prince Jerome Napoleon has
suddenly left Paris for Berlin. The "stormy petrel of the Tuileries," it is said, never takes wing unless trouble is at hand. It is asserted that the Prince intends to endeavour to detach Prussia from her Russian affiance, but it is at least as probable that his business is to remonstrate quietly against an arrangement just made known, it appears that by secret treaties made since Sadowa, Bavaria, Wartemburg, and Baden are bound to appoint Prussian Generals their Ministers of War, and Wurtembarg and Baden have already done so. This enormously strengthens the Prussian hold over the South, and, indeed, as Prussian Generals consider orders from their own King sacred, amounts to complete military fusion. The Tuileries cannot be expected to like an arrangement which, were Prussia a little less powerful, would be called in Paris a defiance.
