MOBILIZATION OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY.

The following leading article we translate from the Marseilles Semaphore of the 20th June. The mobilization of the sixth corps d'armee, which has been ordered by the Court of Berlin, continues to awaken in all the European Press very animated discussions. It is most necessary that the public should keep in view the real tendency and end of this measure.

It is certain that the lively agitation of opinion in Germany, and the emotion it has caused in France, are uot entirely calmed. The Government organs express their opinions with reserve on the subject, and confine themselves to a reproduction of the reflections with which the resolution of the Prussian Government inspires the foreigu journals. It is certaiu that these journals are more disinterested on the question than we are, and the opinions they express are of a nature better to inform us on the situation of affairs than controversies dictated by apprehensions very excited, or susceptibilities exaggerated rather than legitimate. We ought to state that in this respect the London papers generally hold a language calculated to calm the fears which some persons among us have entertained in the presence of the formidable array of forces ordained by the Prussian Government. Thus the Morning Post — again become the semiofficial organ of the English Cabinet by the return of Lord Palmerston at the head of affairs — sees in this partial mobilization of the Prussian army nothing but one of those measures which, without implicating the warlike policy of a State, increases the importance of its attitude of neutrality. The Morning Post attributes to the return of its patron to power a very great influence on the resolutions of Prussia, and cannot suppose that a Cabinet as prudent as that of Berlin would interfere in the question to assure to Austria a domination beyond the Alps. The other English journals express an opinion very nearly like that of the Morning Post. We must at the same time acknowledge that the Morning Herald considers it its duty to state that the Prussian mobilization signifies war ; but this journal, devoted to the party of Lord Derby, cannot be relied upon. It is well knpwn also that the Morning Herald throws a cloud over the position of affairs for the purpose of eulogising the fallen Minister. "The people of England will soon discover that which we have already affirmed, namely, that the Government of Lord Derby alone preserved Europe from a general war." The Nord, which may be considered as representing the Russian Press, regrets the measure, and thinks that it is unfortunate that the Cabinet of Berlin believes it to be its duty to act alone, without the concurrence of the other mediating Powers, to bring about a solution of the present difficulties. The Belgium V lndependence, while considering the mobilization as a grave fact, does not think it ought to be attributed to any other motive than that of preventing Prussia and Germany from being surprised or unprepared for events.

As to the liberal Prussian Press, it is impossible to misapprehend its sentiments. All these show themselves greatly opposed to any intervention whatsoever in favour of Austria. They are of opinion that a reactionary crusade would be a calamity to their country — that Prussia ought not to interfere, either for the maintenance of despotism, or for the Power which signed the Concordat, and that the only political attribute worthy of her is to favour the cause of Italian independence.