ARNIM, COUNT VON. 



elusion of the evacuation treaty, in order to 

 bring about the fall of M. Thiers, the writer of 

 "Pro Nihilo" quotes a letter written to Arniin 

 by the French statesman on the 16th of May, 

 1373 that is to say, on the day following the 

 conclusion of the treaty. Here are M. Thiers's 



own words: 



SUNDAY, March 16, 1873. 



MY DEAB COUNT AKNIM : I wished to write to you 

 yesterday evening, but unfortunately had neither 

 time nor strength enough to do so. To-day I should 

 be ungrateful, as I am not and never shall be, if I 

 did not hasten to thank you for the services ren- 

 dered to myself, and, what is better still, to France, 

 during the long negotiations just brought to a close. 

 You know that we have had nothing to do with the 

 incident by which Berlin became the place of sig- 

 nature. But the place is of moment, and you are 

 none the less in our eyes one of those who, by your 

 high wisdom, most materially contributed to a re- 

 sult which will bring the frightful war of 1870 to an 

 end. Believe me, with the highest esteem, yours 

 most cordially, THIERS. 



M. de Remusat also wrote to him from Paris, 

 expressing the pleasure which it gave him to 

 think that Arnim, " through his just influ- 

 ence," had borne his part in bringing about 

 "this happy result." 



The pamphlet also contained dispatches, 

 hitherto unpublished, written or received by 

 Count Arnim. In one of these, dated just after 

 M. Thiers's resignation, he states that, thanks 

 to Mr. Thiers's plain dealing, and in spite of his 

 ability, Germany, some short Chauvinistic in- 

 terludes excepted, had lived with no French 

 Government in such proper relations as with 

 him. This dispatch was directed not to Prince 

 Bismarck, but contrary to all diplomatic usage 

 to the Emperor himself. On June 19, 1873, 

 Bismarck sent the following dispatch to Count 

 Arnim : 



Your Excellency, in your report to the Emperor, 

 dated the 8th June, expresses the opinion that, for 

 us, the best government in France would be that 

 which would have to expend the greater part of its 

 strength in combating its home enemies. Already, 

 in your communication of the 27th May, your Ex- 

 cellency had veered toward that view ; I, therefore, 

 see that you recognize the value of the opinions which 

 I, but without success, formerly laid before the Em- 

 peror relative to the way in which you regarded the 

 situation in France. During eight months, there- 

 fore, you have induced his Majesty to entertain op- 

 posite ideas ; you have thus, if not produced, at least 

 facilitated the recent change of government which 

 is not advantageous for us, even by your own admis- 

 sion, in this sense, that you paralyzed my efforts to 

 maintain M. Thiers. You have induced the Em- 

 peror to adopt your opinion that the development of 

 events in France, under the direction of M. Thiers, 

 might have become dangerous for the monarchical 

 principle in Europe. His Majesty did not consider 

 that a support to be given by us to the government 

 of M. Thiers was so indispensable as I thought for 

 the above-mentioned reasons of your dispatch of 

 the 8th June. The Emperor would not permit^me 

 to give you for instructions to employ all the weight 

 of our influence to sustain M. Thiers ; that is what 

 has, in great part, rendered his overthrow so easy. 



The tone of your reports has been, during eight 

 months, in opposition to the tendency defended by 

 me with his Majesty. In thus preventing me from 

 efficaciously supporting M. Thiers, you ^placed me 

 under the necessity, as responsible adviser of the 



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Emperor, to indorse a political fault which, on ac- 

 count of the incessant efforts I made in a contrary 

 sense, was not mine. Your action on his Majesty's 

 mind exceeds the attributes of an ernbassador; it 

 assumes a ministerial character ; it has entered 

 upon a rivalry with the legitimate influence of the 

 minister ; it becomes dangerous for the state. 

 * Your Excellency disposes of leisure and means to 

 defend, with the Emperor, by writing and orally, a 

 policy different from that of the responsible minis- 

 ter. I am exhausted by serious labors, crowned with 

 success, and I can no longer, beyond regular affairs, 

 struggle in his Majesty's cabinet against an ernbas- 

 sador hostile to my views. I conclude from your 

 latest dispatches that your Excellency will also have 

 comprehended the difficulties which arise from that 

 state of things for the Emperor's service, and you 

 will agree with the reasons which induced the prop- 

 osition I made to his Majesty for the reestablish- 

 ment of unity and discipline in the Department of 

 Foreign Affairs. Accept, etc. BISMAECK. 



The publication of this pamphlet, which ap- 

 peared at Zurich, was not announced in the 

 usual way, and a few copies only were sent 

 through the post by way of an experiment to 

 test the powers of endurance possessed by the 

 police, and these few copies were at once 

 snapped up by th'e relatives and intimate 

 friends of the count himself. Since then the 

 demand has been enormous. On the 12th of 

 November, however, it was confiscated by the 

 police in all the book-stores in Berlin. On No- 

 vember 26th, the public prosecutor applied to 

 the Senate of the State Tribunal to indict Count 

 Arnim for high-treason, because of his alleged 

 authorship of the pamphlet, and on November 

 30th, the Senate formally indicted Count Arnim 

 as requested. 



ARNOT, WILLIAM, D. D., popular Scottish 

 preacher and author, was born in Perthshire, 

 Scotland, in 1808, and died in Edinburgh, June 

 3, 1875. He was educated at the University 

 of Glasgow, was ordained in 1839, and after- 

 ward joined the Free Church movement, of 

 which he became one of the champions. In 

 1863 he removed to Edinburgh. He was a 

 'delegate to the meeting of the Evangelical Al- 

 liance in 1873, at New York. Dr. Arnot was 

 the author of several works, among which are 

 " The Race for Riches ; " " Illustrations of the 

 Book of Proverbs ; " a volume of sermons en- 

 titled "Roots and Fruits of the Christian 

 Life;" "The Parables of our Lord;" and 

 " The Life of James Hamilton, D. D." 



ASIA. According to the latest accounts, 

 the area and population of the political and 

 geographical divisions of Asia {see Behm and 

 Wagner, "Bevolkerung der Erde," vol. Hi., 

 Gotha, 1875) are those given in the following 

 table. 



No event in the history of Asia during the 

 year 1875 has attracted so general attention 

 as the recent progress made by the Rus- 

 sians in Central Asia. An insurrection in 

 Khokan against the rule of the Khan not only 

 led to an armed intervention of the Russians, 

 but to the annexation of a large portion of the 

 khanate to the Russian dominions. The inva- 

 sion of Khokan was followed by an expedition 



