New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04


thus to acquire 1t as right Germany were bent upon
seeing the produce OF Asace continuing be imported
duty free into France let her make the offer to France
that o. long was to last French produce too might
be imported duty free into Aace or course this would
have been nothing but adjourning and even sharp
enng the commercial difficulty Of the tncorpora-
ton Of Asace with Germany. Putting this evr-
sve and unmistakably significant reply together with
the league formed at Paris for preparing the
Of Asace by thwarng all German attempts of concil-
iating the population OF Paris, Bismarck resolved to
show that he not to be ntmdated and to cut the
knot at once. And thus the same morning which re-
vealed the stoppage at which the negotiations had
rived and Of which the public first apprised the
sudden threats Of the journals In the confidence Of the
Government brought an Imperial decree designating
the customsfrontier between Asace and Germany as
ceasng to exist after the sst December while customs
frontier between Asace and France has been established
at once, and Is already lined with customhouses and
custom house officers He further gave instructions
here closely to scrutinze the securities forming the
larger part Of the whose payment indeed, Is
In progress, and to object to bills Of long as
being no payments which the demand of the imme-
date withdrawal Of the troops could DO rested.
The Liberal press, far as my eye reaches,
blows siuce into the same horn the Con-
servative, and taunts the Government only for not
having abolished at the customsfrontier between
Asace and Germany. The reason for the delay is that
speculation stored in Alsace while the country was
quite open, q considerable amount Of commodities,
chiefly sugar and coffee, whose importation into Ger
many free Of duty would loss to the revenue
The minimum this loss is computed at about t5ooOo.
loss the opposition journals say, ought to be borne
e. Tho interest OF rivetng Asace quickly possible
80 Germany IL IL expected that the Government with
on, yielding 20 this demand will take measures to Be-
cure the German market duty free to real Asaan prod
ucc even before the lat Of January On Tuesday Count
Arnim left again for Frankfort, with instructions to
leave no doubt In the mind Of the French that any relax
alton Of the strict conditions, laid down between Bis
marck and Jules Favre, will henceforward be e1cu-
svey dependent upon the amount OF confidence the be-
havior Of the French toward Asace able to influence
Bismarck on the day, left for Gastein, where he
will to-day met Emperor Wilhelm and Count Beust
The meetings Of the old man. who is now at the head OF
the German nation, with the King Of Bavaria at
schwandorf and the Emperor OF Austria at Ischl. III
rumor s right, have passed of very well; and this Is
conceivable for had not been known beforehand they
would not have been brought about And yet must be
confessed that just at present, the Emperor Francis
Joseph has to look upon the official representative
OF the German nation as parsonage rather oppressive
to himself in Austria itself Francis Joseph has just
burnt his ships The decisive step, for which he has
called the Hohenwart Ministry into office, has been
taken. The rupture with the German COnstitu-
tonal party in Ciseitha Is complete; the
alliance with the Slavonian and Federal Ia
| perfect. The disposition Of all those provincial
representations In which the German element hitherto
has formed the majority, has been pronounced These
are the Diets Of Upper and Lower Austria, salzourg
steiermark Orriuthia Austrian Bssia, horavia and
Tyrol The Hohenwart Ministry entertans the hope OF
being able exercise sufficient influence upon the new
elections particularly by the Of the Court upon
the nobility and by the action Of the clergy to arrive at
cement which will make them SEND representa-
tiyes and Federal color to the Para
ment of Csleitha This Parliament does not proceed
from direct elections but composed of deputies elected
y the provincial diets II the Ministry succeed In thus
securing o psbe twOthirds majority In that
Pax,tamant, they viii propose TO 1t revision
Of the constitution which, II adopted VIII amount
to suicide OF that Parliament whose powers and pre-
negatives are partly transferred to the Provincial
Diets and partly to return to the Imperial Government
Every amendment to the Constitution necessitates
twohirds majority The project has been concocted In
interviews between Count Hohenwart and Reger, the
leader Of the Czechs In Bohemia, who never acknowl
edged the Ciseithan Constitution, but insisted on
separate Bohemian Crown like that OF Hungary, and
whom 1t has been purposed to conciate as the safest
allies against any wishes Of the Austrian Germans OF
Joining the German Empire But for the present. Francis
Joseph has lost by this policy at least just as many
friends among his subjects as he may win The German
element particularly in Morava one of the provinces
OF mixed nationality has been aroused Twolarge fest
walls have Just been held, one devoted 10 gymnascs az
Brnn the other devoted to German song az SSM Inc
they in reality political as tne So
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TO disturb the festivals to have utterly lost courage
in face of the German multitudes which had h0cked
together The municipal auhorities were at the head OF
the unambiguoss demonstrations TINS much is already
apparent that the victory Of the Federal Ministry VIII
not be easy and that violent interior
are in for q ana t6s MAY S even Ae
The Roumanian question that OF the railways appro
| prated by the ROumanian Government, about which
Bismarck and Beust trying to come 70 an under
standing likely to disappear from the political stage
as quickly 1t has arisen The Roumanans are said 70
have become afraid Of their deed, and the Sutans
Government to whom Bismarck had appealed IN behalf
of the shareholders to have informed the Berlin
| Government that the ROumanian Chamber aud the
Roumanian Cover nment will retrace thelr steps anu
will submit the regular courts OF law instead
Of an umpire whom they had nominated In ths confer s
ence held at Heidelberg the leading men OF the " Oid
Catholic Church." are now universally
called those who oppose the doctrine Of oui in
| faibility have resolved upon inviting not merely
the German opponents Of the DEGREES Of the Council
Of Rome but those all nations to meet at Munich IN
the beginning Of September in solemn congress ane
Austria with Hungary, Italy, Switzerland and England
will be represented at Munich. Dr. Won Dolih9er VIII
take the chair The strife In Prussia between the ola
and new Catholics continues and begins to turn upon
| church property.