... identical with that which the vanquished most desire to see realised. United Germany has always been the dream of the various States which constituted the late Confederation, and it is a united Germany which Count Bismarck now desires to create. It is true that ...

... probability of differences arising similar to those which had arisen in reference to certain claims of the United States growing out of the recent civil war in that country, her Majesty's Government had advised the Crown to issue a royal commission to inquire ...