The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-04-25

In case OF MS setng root once moro upon the German
SOIL ana the promised action Of the Bund govern
ment 10 prevent a recurrence OF the Leibnitz and
similar cases. IL must he wondered at II the Stats
Union as recently GrouSed Sy Professor Wells sam
Is. kuggles and Others, will considerably fall snort,
not by hundreds OF thousands but by millions.
LOT Prussan institutions, though your correspond.
ent not seldom raps them on the knuckes, ! would
mention the excellent management or us hiahciai
department. as far as the credit OF the State Is COLI
cerned. As proof OF this assertion please 10 can
10 mind the passage OF tne Jaw Of nf Finance te
issue five million halers treasury notes ior TIE re.
lief of the sufferers in the eastern provinces said
notes to rum at the rate oftree per cent interest not
over one year. For the LIST instant the Minister had
announced that subscriptions for three millions
would be received and the amount signed ON that
day was over sixteen Millions requiring reduction
to 0ne1fth OF the demand. He now declares his
willingness to receive up 70 tne tn instant SUD
less the offers will exceed the amount four or i've
fold Prussian five per cent State bonds are gener-
four and half per cent bonds at nnetysix four per
cent at ninety but treasury notes Ut years call,
though only yielding three per cent bring a premium
Capitalists are portentously shaking their heads at
the unceasing demand OF money for railways and in
dustrlal enterprises. Indeed, hardly q day passes
without some company or other, newly formed, de-
handing twenty-five or fifty Millions and throwing
part r OF MS STOCK, molems gosens upon the Berlin
foreign railway shares, as also by variety OF
State loans great stagnatiOn In the money market
n
as IN the aversion to invest them 1t may here again
be confirmed that United States hve.twenty bonds,
until now so well liked for investment, have lost
much OF their favor by the so often repeated repuda
The strike Of the cigar makers still continues and
may be called complete success, SO much SO that
some of the associations Of j0urneymen, who easily
dispose OF all they manufacture have concluded
to continue their independent position, even II the
employers should submit to their former demands.
This agitation against the factory rules and regua-
tons is initiated by the w0Ikmen In Rhensh Prussia,
In Baden and Wurtemberg, but the owners OF fac
tories hoping to come out victorousy, firmly hold
on to them. The police In Berlin have so far very
dscreetly kept aooi contenting ITSELF with removing
sale, the word 'strlke" not being found In German
dictionaries.
during the year 1857 was 1855 to 5000 In the pre-
ceding year, small increase Of about ten per cent,
showing the susceptibility OF this trade 1t having
amounted in 1852 to 779 and In 1916 to II OS8
new books, or twenty-five per cent more than at
present. the fatal consequences Of the late being
United States in England the books altogether
articles Of luxury in which none but the weather.
science are represented nearly in The same propor
ton in former years. 1886 theological and prayer
books nearly the seventh part Of the entire liter
AIRY production, being first In rank, ut least far as
quantity Is concerned. The pedagOgic branch counts
932, jurisprudence and politics. 800; bectristic, $50;
science, 575; medicine, 40S and line arts ss7 works
OF new maps and charts 254 have appeared to 203
Of last year; Compared with the Eng.
gives A. IA new books, and with that OF
France, the German production far Outnumbers
them. The total number OF journals on January OF
the present year was 1866 to 2,0y6 in France and
$3.50 In England. or the German journals &c are
political, 1905 nonpOiitica; while of the French
press only 3s4 are devoted to politics. owing the
still greater oppression in the latter country. II is
curious to notice that in little Greece with and
half millions inhabitants, seventy-seven out OF it's
ninety-twO journals and periodicals are political,
though OF thirty-two journals appearing in Athens
only three can boast OF more than years standing
or the 1856 German journals Bavaria counts 357
Munich 50) Saxony 400, OF which 100 political; the
city of Vienna $50, and only rs political.
Probably for the sake Of not keeping too far behind
French censors, the criminal court OF Berlin has pro-
nOunced during last week several severe sentences
against the editor OF the Social Democrat, and
heavy fine against Herr D0hm, OF the kidddeyu-
wherein Twesten, as Margaret, cautions Count
Bismarck (Dr. Faust) against assocatng with Count
Lppe (MephistOphees). jury would have willingly
acquitted the Berlin Punch for such joke, especially
had indeed played more lcss the part assigned to
him in the travesty until he thrust aside BY the
influential Premier, II uries were at oil permitted In
press trials. For funeral serenade To the same
Count Lippe In article headed "A Victory of Pub
lie OPINION the editor and publisher OF the Social
Democrat were mulcted each In fine Of one hundred
thaers.
The suit of Professor Duhring against Privy Coun-
facts The Lopsc publisher, Herr Thust, openly ac
cuses Wagner Of the plagiarism while the latter has
turned round to Cry ''St0p thief" But this ruse
will not avail him much II the proud words spoken
by the miller OF Sans Souci to King Frederick the
Great when cOntesting his property. There arc
judges yet In Prussia" have not lost their meaning.
The ayorite the heart and soul OF the conservatives
the leading man OF the Kreuz ZeStsng Privy Council
Tor Wagner viii then have to descend from his high
pedestal and hide his diminished head.