Tus Morier incident continued to form the subject of many leading articles in the European press during the week ending 12th January. The Suturday considers that, perhaps, not the least profitable side of it, for study, is the edifying light it on the relation of a kept press and ceper. On this subject it has a good ical to say, and says it with a ' brutal frankness" which will be very displeasing to its brethren of Berlin, and, as the follo ing extract will shew, that of Paris also It is perfectly true that there is, not only a violent personal dislike of England in some exalted quarters, but a general "grutching" at this country' on the part of Germans, especially on the part of Germans of the bureaucratic and military classes. It has also to be remembered that, though there is " still greater dislike than this between the Russian and the German peoples, this latter dislike is not equally felt in high places, Further, it is Prince Bismarck's steady policy to maintain that he is, and to behave as if he really were, very anxious to make friends with Russia, and he is particularly jealous of any rap: prockement between Russia and England. And well he may be; for, though an ye Anglo-Russo-French alliance is the wildest of dreams, wilder dreams have sometimes come true; and, if that particular vision ever passed into fact, the Hohenzollerns would do well to arrange for a retirement to Hohenzollern itself. "Again, the German official temper, especially in Bismarckian circles, is very much, little unpleasantnesses which are rmany's colonial attempts in East Africa, a, in Damaraland. And, lastly, as we have said, the idea that simple rdeness is a mark of strength is almost ineradicably fixed in the North-German mind. Taken together, these things will make a sufficient cause, and it is only surprising that symptoms of something like reluctant und ungracious apology have shown themselves, Sir Robert Morier being even assured in His: marckian quarters that no one doubts his bona sides, which certainly not long ago some fe seemed to doubt very mach tadeed, for the moment, the rage for detraction and mud-throwing which seems to have inspired certain persons in Germany has met with more than one unpleasant douche of cold clean water. The collapse of the prosecution, or
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