The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-18

repressive policy adopted by the Kings Govern
ment. The agreement made by Prussia by the
treaty of London, May IL, 1867, to dismantle
and neutralize the stronghold of Luxumbourg,
which had been severed from Germany,
threatened conflict with France, but this was
averted by the statecraft Of Bismarck and an os-
tensible fulflment of the treat y obligations.
The Jealousy of France.
Yet the growing power of Prussia has con-
tinued bete noir 10 Napoleon, ond since the
humiliation of Austria in 1866, which placed her
riN al in the position of leadership in Germany
to which she had so long aspired, the Emperor
of the French has been impatiently awaiting the
signal for the conflict which the victory of
sadowa rendered mere question of time.
The Issue Joined with Francr.
The Luxembourg inbroglio in 1867 found
neither nation prepared for the war. The start
ling announcement, on the 5th of the present
month, that General Prim had rendered the
crown OF Spain to Prince Leopold, distant
member of the royal house of Prussia, preci-
pitated the struggle for which neither of the
antagonsts are as fully prepared as they would
like to be. Yet, each fearing that the other
would gain greater accessions of strength by
further delay tue abandonment by Prince Leo
pold Of his candidature was insufficient to allay
the passions SO long slumbering and at last fully
aroused; and when a reasonable pretext
for war on the part of France
was removed Napoleon has insisted on its re-
moval being followed by such pledges and
guarantees on the part of Prussia as it was
utterly impossible for her to give; while Prussia,
maintaining a dignifed stand of reserve, inn
pressed with the belief that conflict was inevi-
table in the end, has calmly refused 20 accede to
the demands of France, and responded to Napo-
Icons declaration of war by spontaneous and
enthusiastic uprising and jubilant shout of
"On 10 the Rhipe!" The arbitrary policy and
absolute tendencies of King William are as COM
pletely ignored by the whole people of North
Germany now as they were in June, 1866, when
the cry of "On to Yienna!" was echoed from
one end of the kingdom to the other. A striking
exhibition of the unanimity of feeling in Prus-
sia was shown by the grand escort Of 100, 900
people which, with shouts and cheers and
national songs, accompanied the King from the
station to the palace, on his arrival in Berlin
on the night of the 18th.
King williams PersonnI Appearance and
King William now in his seventy-fourth year,
is a stalwart, deep-chested man, with a square,
rugged face, heavy jaw bristling grey nous.
tache, and cold glittering eye-the very beau
ideal of a veteran warrior who deems the sword
the safest arbiter of every point III dispute. His
military education and hereditary hatred of the
Bonaparte family have combined with the asso-
Citations and circumstances of his stormy career
to render him almost an undiGguised foe of
liberal tendencies of all sorts, and q devout and
unaffected worshipper at the shrine of royalty.
Believing that he wields the sceptre by divine
right, he does rot scruple to WELD it as he
wills, and it is the accident of his position alone
as the leader of the party of German unity that
has kept BIN firmly seated on the throne for the
past nine years. If his ambition had led him
in a different direction, he would doubtless
ere this have been swept away. But the idea
OF German unity, which has so firmly possessed
his soul, is as deeply rooted in the hearts of his
people, and, so long as the aspirations of King
and subjects thus comedies, he will be able to
rally Germany at his back whenever he is as
sailed from without. In times OF peace, he is
unpopular with the great mass OF his people, be-
cause of his arbitrary tendencies and utter con-
tempt for all the formalities of law and constl-
tutional guarantees which run counter to his
will or whims; in times of war ne becomes the
embodiment of a national idea, and the people
rise 20 his support as one man. Left to himself,
he might do either better or worse than he has
done; for his policy, as we'll as for his success
during the past eight years, he is immeasurably
indebted to the willy Bismarck who stands be-
hind his throne, and is accused, not entirely
without reason, of moulding his will and dictat-
ing his course with as much facility as II he
were a mere automaton.
King Williams Family.
On the 11th of June 1929, the King married
the Princess Augusta, daughter of Charles
Frederick, the Grand Duke Of Weimar, by
whom he has had two children, Frederick Will
liam, the Crown Prince born Octooor 18, 1881,
and married January 49, 1858, TO Victoria Ade-
laide, Princess Royal of Great Britain and eldest
child of Qneen Victoria; and the Princess
Louise Mary, born December 3, 1888, and mar
ried September 20, 1856, to Frederick William,
the Grand Duke of Baden. The Grown Prince
has already five children, the eldest, Prince
Frederick William, born January 81, 1859, and
the youngest, daughter, born few weeks ago.
NAPOLEON III, EMPEROR OF THE
FRENCH.