Kullmann, the assassin who attempted Prince Bismarck's life, has been
sentenced to a very moderate punishment, con- sidering the nature of his-crime. The sentence is fourteen years' imprisonment in the House of Correction, -ten years' loss of civil rights, and subsequently police surveillance. He declined to appeal to a higher Court, remained perfectly undismayed from beginning to end of his trial,and volunteered, without the slightest ostenta- tion or bounce, it is said, the statement that his feelings towards Prince Bismarck were still precisely the same as those which -actuated him at the moment he levelled the 'pistol at him.' Evidently the young man is a very brave fanatic, who 'would not have shrank from giving his -own life, had it been forfeited. It is fortunate that the attempt of such a man was not more successful
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