The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-01
NORTH GERMANY.

CLOSE OF THE PARLIAMEMT-sPEECH OF KING
WILLIAM
BERLIN, April 1.-THE close of the North
German Parliament by the King OF Prussia in
person, as announced by Count Won Bismark
during the morning sitting, took place at
noon today in the white saloon of the
Royal Castle. large number of Depu-
ties were present, including Prince Frede-
rick Charles. The Left however, was only re-
presented by Herren Becker and Scharaps. In
the box OF the diplomatic body were the Am
bassadors OF England, Russia, Denmark, and
Holland. The Queen and Princess, with her
eldest son, were in the royal box. On the entree
of the King Herr Simpson, President of the
Parliament, exclaimed, Long live the King,
the protector OF the German Bund." His Ma
jesty then delivered the following speech from
the throne:-
Illustrious, noble, and honorable members of
the North German Confederation, see you
again assembled around me, at the termination
OF your important labors, with a feeling of sim
ceie satisfaction. The hopes | recenGly eY-
pressed from this place in the name of the allied
governments have sinee then, through your
aid. been brought to a fulhlment With
patriotic earnes'ness you have understood
the greatness OF your task, and have
kept in view our common object with voluntary
self-restraint. For that reason we have sue
ceeded in establishing upon secure basis a con-
stitution whose development we may conh-
dently leave to the future. The Federal autho.
rity is furnished with the attributes indlspen-
sable to IL, but also SUFFICIENT for the prosperity
and the power of the confederation, The indl-
vidual States, while the future is guaranteed
by the unity of the Bund, have retained their
freedom of action in all departments wherein
variety and development are admissible and
salutary. Popular representation is secured by
that cooperation in carrying out the great
national objects which correspond to
the spirit OF the existing AGO uisitons of
the countries, and the necessities of
the Governments to see their action supported
by the agreement of the German people. All OF
us who have co-opeTated in carrying the
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as the representatives of the people, have
readily made the sacrifice of our views and our
wishes, and we were able to do so in the con-
viction that these sacrifices were made to Ger
many, and that they were worth our union. By
this universal readiness, coupled with the con-
clliation of, and victory over, opposing views,
the guarantee is, at the same time, gained for
| that future fruitful development of tie confe-
! deration, with the conclusion OF which also
the hopes common to us with our brethren in
| South Germany have advanced nearer to their
fulflment. The time has arrived when our
| German fatherland is able to uphold Its place,
| its rights and its dignity. by its own collective
| strength the national self-censclousness which
has met with powerful echo from all quarters
| of Germany. None the less, however, are all
the governments and people of Germany unani-
! nous that the regalned power OF the nation has
! above all to uphold its significance by rem
| dering secure its blessings OF peace.
Honorable gentlemen, the great work
| in which we have been thought worthy
| Dy RrOVluenCc W CO-OpCIdo 10 dpptOdCu-
! ing its completion. The popular re-
| presentatives of the individual States will not
| refuse their constitutional recognition to what
| YOU have created in community with their
| Governments. The same spirit that has enabled
| the task to succeed here will also preside over
| their deliberations. Thus, then, the first par
| lament of the North German Confederation
| NAV close its labors with the eleyating con-
seriousness that it is accompanied by the thanks
of the fatheIland, and that the work 1t has
| accomplished will, with the help of Providence,
| be fully developed, botn in our time and future
| generations May God besLow His blessings
| upon us and our dear iatherland
The paragraph OF the speech relating to South
| Germany, and to the duty OF securing the bless
! ings OF PEACE called forth loud cheers. After
| the delivery of the speech, Count Bismark, on
behalf of the Federal Government declared the
session closed The Saxon Plenlpotentaries
then called upon the assembly to give three
chtel for the King Of Prussia.