The final result of the Prussian elections seems at length
to be understood. The Radical party has won ten votes, and the Whig remains as before; the" independents "have sunk from fifty to nine- teen, and lost their leader, Von Vincke ; the Ultramontanes have declined from thirty-three to twenty-eight, and the Conservatives have risen from eleven to thirty-seven. It is calculated that the Ultramontanes will usually vote with the Government, but the trust worthy majority still amounts to 260, or more than three-fourths of the Chamber. The most severe pressure has been placed upon the officials and the country districts, and it is believed in Prussia that von Bismark already contemplates another dissolution. The Prussians, it seems to be understood, will stand that, or anything else, except an extra demand for money. Our own Parliamentary struggle was seventeen years working itself from a protest into a contest ; but then Prussians dislike to be told that they are still in the seventeenth century.
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