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avourable to his policy ; he threw in parenthetically, and iid
"ith & delicate finesse, some compliments, such as ‘I wish I Zs.48.
"2% an Englishman.” I speak like yourself, as a practical
“an, and not in the language of romance.” You and I
78 of the same race,” etc. He alluded to Ireland, and said
0 could not discover a key for the solution of the difficulty:
0 other gountries reforms were wanted, but there a social
iystem must be created out of chaos. He is probably the
56 of those state physicians who, looking only to the
¥Ymptoms of a nation, content themselves with superficial
*emedies from day to day, and never attempt to probe
Seneath the surface, to discover the source of the evils which
Mllict the social system. This order of statesmen will pass
"Way with him, because too much light has been shed tpon
he laboratory of governments, to allow them to impose
pon mankind with the old formulas.
“ After leaving Prince Metternich, I called upon Baron
Kiibeck, minister of finance, a man of a totally different
“haracter from his chief. He is a simple, sincere, and
Straightforward man; expressed himself favourably to a
"elaxation of the protective system, but spoke of the
difficulties which powerful interests put in his way; said
that Dr, List had succeeded in misleading the public mind
oN the question of protection. A visit from Prince Esterhazy,
 who was upwards of twenty years ambassador in
England ; he remarked that diplomacy upon the old system
Was now mere humbug, for that the world was much too
ell informed upon all that was going on in every country
allow smbassadors to mystify matters.”
“ Dresden, July 21st. —Called on M. Zeschau, the Saxon
finance minister, an able, hard-working man, who also fills the
ice of minister for foreign affairs ; tells me the land is much
livideq in Saxony, that the owner of an estate worth 60,000%.
8 deemed o large proprietor; the majority of the farmers