_Evening._--Read further documents received and despatched. On the 17th of February the Chancellor sent the Emperor an abstract of a letter addressed by Count Ladislaus Plater, a leader of the emigrant Poles who is residing in Zurich, to the editor of the _Dzennik Poznanski_ (the Polish Journal), urging the most active agitation possible. This abstract, which the Chancellor received from a Polish agent, states, _inter alia_: “Germany, whose unification is hardly yet complete, is undermined by two very determined parties, the Catholics and the Socialists, neither of which will abate one jot of its demand, nor shrink from any means to promote its cause.” The Count goes on to say that it is the sacred duty of the Poles to support both parties in word and deed. Should a Socialist revolution break out in Germany, which may very shortly be expected with tolerable certainty, the Poles must assist it with all their might. Writing on the 20th Arnim reports various particulars with regard to parties in the National Assembly at Versailles, and adds: “The President considers the Monarchists to be powerless, and said to me yesterday that he had no anxiety on that ground. He at the same time clearly manifested his intention to establish the Republic as the definitive form of French Government.” _February 26th._--Bucher brought me instructions from the Chief to write an article for the _Kölnische Zeitung_, which was to be based on a report of the 17th instant on the anti-German agitation carried on by certain Orleanist officials of the French Embassy at Brussels. This was immediately done.... _Addendum._--Yesterday morning Doerr brought the news that Dr. Beuthner, the chief editor of the _Kreuzzeitung_, was so greatly affected by the thunderbolt hurled at his party in the _Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung_, and the charge of incapacity levelled at him personally, that it brought on an attack of apoplexy. That is the inevitable fate of such stupid conceit as he showed last spring, when he declined in the following words to accede to a desire of the Chancellor which I communicated to him: “We will not do that, and we shall see who will prove to be right in the end. The _Kreuzzeitung_ party is older than Bismarck, and it will last longer than his Government.” The article in question, which is certainly very strongly written, was in great part the work of the Chief himself. Bucher informed me that the article in No. 41 of the _Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung_ on the concessions made to the Poles in Galicia also emanated from the Minister himself.