during many years is true; but he has never appeared in the character of a partisan; he has always been the consistent supporter of liberal measures per se, and not because they were the means adopted by a party to gain political power.  With his political steadfastness he has preserved his intellectual integrity from profanation.  For although, had he early devoted his powers to the study of abstract or practical science, as a leading and not a subsidiary pursuit, the acuteness of his mind was such, that he must have risen to eminence upon the basis of discovery, yet it is no slight proof how little the struggles of the world affect superior intellects, that he has all along turned aside, with a never cloying avidity, to the pursuits of mind—­to science, to literature, and to philosophy.

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THE WHITE LADY.

The readers of The International may have seen some account of an apparition said to have been seen recently in the royal palace at Berlin, and known under the name of the “White Lady.”  M. Minutoli, lately chief of the Police at Berlin, has been amusing himself by looking up the history of this visitant from the unknown world, and has published a variety of curious particulars respecting her, drawn in a measure from documents preserved in the royal archives, as well as from old-time chronicles and dissertations, Latin and German middle age doggerel, and the records of jurists, historians and theologists.  Several persons are designated in the early history of the family of Hohenzollern as that unquiet soul who for some three hundred years has performed the functions of palace-ghost.  Many writers agree that she was a Countess named Orlamuende, Beatrice, or Cunigunde, and that she was desperately in love with Count Albert of Nuremberg, and was led by her passion to a crime which is the cause of her subsequent ghostly disquiet.  Mr. Minutoli proves that this lady cannot be the same that alarms the palace with her untimely visitations.  The accounts of the White Lady ascend to 1486, and she was first seen at Baireuth.  Subsequently two ghosts were heard of, one white and one black.  They were several times boldly interrogated and interesting discoveries arrived at.  In 1540, Count Albert the Warrior laid in wait for the apparition, seized it with his powerful arm and flung it head over heels down into the castle court-yard.  The next morning the chancellor, Christopher Hass, was found there with his neck broken, and upon his person a dagger and a letter proving him to have had treasonable designs.  Notwithstanding the spirit has several times been thus compromised, it has maintained itself to the present day.  It was first seen in Berlin January 1, 1598, eight days before the death of the Prince Royal John George.  When the French invasion took place, it returned to Baireuth and was patriotic enough to take up its abode