New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-26
GERMAN TOPICS.
PASSAGE OF THE BILL FOR CONTROLLING THE CLERGY
IN PRussIA-THE NEW CURRENCY = DEPARTURE
OF THE EMPEROR FOR ST. PETERSBURG.
RRRIIN Friday, April %, 1871.

PASSAGE OF THE BILL FOR CONTROLLING THE CLERGY
IN PRUssIA-THE NEW CURRENCY = DEPARTURE
OF THE EMPEROR FOR ST. PETERSBURG
BERLIN, Friday. April %. 1879.
The Upper House of the Prussian Diet to-
day passed the bill for the control of the clergy.
The German Parliament has ordered the Withdrawal
on the LIST day Of January 1876 OF all banknotes not OF
the new imperial standard.
The Emperor William left this city to-day Tor sI
Petersburg. He stays over night at kongsperg Steat
preparations have made at st. Petersburg LOT ms
reception. l
THREE PARLIAMENTARY BODIES IN sBssIOh-NEW
MINT sCHEME-LiTERARY TOPICS.
frRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRiBUSR.l
BERLIN, March 27.-Three parliamentary
bodies in motion at the same time is subject which
gives the humorous sheets an opportunity ior
many very clumsy jokes. The inconvenience OF TINS
state OF things u.s. however, too serious TO be dismissed
with pun. order to obviate the difficulty so lar as
s members are concerned, the Herrenhaus has just
taken an indefinite adjournment and viii meet again
only subject TO the order OF its President This proceed
inc one Of TIE peeuiarities Of PrusSan egs
lst,on' The Presidents Of ts Chambers are great po'
tontaes in their way and in giving recuon 70 'no 'u
rent of business, they seem TO have No. ie'' .no
their own arbitrary will They auIo~S ~
ChaInbers appoint the hours Of meeting "s~
ut the close Of each session ANNOUNCE 'nee V'e''
10 the following day. The President OF the House
Of Deputies n asserting his authority lately came INTO
conflict with one of the ministers. No great harm was
dome but the President affirmed, in the most uneqmvo
cal manner that in the House he was superior 10 inc
ministers and that he should insist making them as
well as the deputies respect his decisions AS Tue fie
dent is in a certain sense, the representative OF inc
Hcuse the deputies naturally took his SIDE against 'he
Government The Herrenhaus Is not so strong parti
san of Parliament but it Is not unwilling to intruftis
President with great power
fha ronro hav nd n
definitely 1t supposed that they will meet again
before the last Of April IT, indeed they meet then for
ANYTHING but dissolution. Two reasons are assigned
and both are undoubtedly valid. First so many mem
beers OF the Herrenhaus are members OF the
Reiohstag that IL cannot get together quorum Ior
business; second, the Lower House Is so diiatory
that there is no business for the Herrenhaus even when
there ia quorum In practice If not in law, ali legisla
tive measures originate in the House Of Deputies The
Peers have not even like their brethren in England the
speca charge legal matters and in general they can
act only such subjects as are sent up from the Dep
ties The Reichsag has yet done nothing important
IT has been discussing administrative measure denn
ing the duties and responsibilities OF civil servants OF
the Fpre with special reference 10 cases in which the
civil service is identical with that OF PRUSSIA IL VIII
soon have however two or three bills OF wac sign
oance One lie the new criminal code which CON-
ittee of the Bundesrath has ready another is the new
mint scheme The first is elaborate project intended
the dozen or more systems alternately in existence 1t
1vas nrepared by q committee Of the Bundesrath, to
which had been intrused the duty OF revising both the
civil and criminal laws. The other half OF lts WORK VIII
not betnshed during this session of the Rechstag the
mint scheme confirms the mark as the unit OF the Ger
man coinage The mark is 10 silbergroschen or about %
cents The 20mark gold piece passes loosely for e. or
% francs In Prussia however it is known only as SIX
tbslers AS basis Of accounts reckonngs the mark
is utterly unknown.
The Rev. Dr. Thompson OF New-fork Is engaged al
Berlin ON course of lectures upon the relation between
Church and State America The lectures are Delivered
I'm English at the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium and
IL is TO be presumed the larger number OF the hearers
speak the lecturers tongue and see with his eyes,
II he succeeds in giving Germans any integibe notion
of the position Of church in the United States he VIII
be fortunate since in general Germans ike Europeans
everywhere, only the alternative OF complete
biecion OF the Church TO the State or the reverse
some of the Berlin journals have slight sketches OF DR.
Thompsons first discourse The reporter OF tho hdhond
zeano praises the lecturers elegant English" and the
course understand promises TO be successful.
A great many Americans familiar with the name
her romances have been republshed, think. in Amer
lean periodicals. She has Just been made the victim OF
ON her reputation for 9eracity and the light which
it throws the state Of feeling between Germans and
is stated that Madame Elise Poko once wrote fulsome
stmateIy 'G and study at Mamaison and Arenenbere
everything which could throw light on the yes ana
OF Josephine whose
she wished to write The indignant author published
| card, in which she denied the existence OF
any that she had pnrposed 10 write
the lives OF Josephine and Horense The controversy
spread other persons nterfered, until at last Arnold
Wilmer OF Vienna found and published the original lot
ter IL is lust what M. Border described i--fusome
and silly There nothing reasonable about It, except
nerisps the request loan OF 1000 francs travel
ing money The loan, however Frau Poko was careful
70 insist could be made not out OF the Imperial treas
urv bt the literary profits OF the most lannon's
author of this century" This delicate compliment does
nor appear 10 have moved the compiler of the Vie de
lsay for the tourney Compegne and Malmaison was
not undertaken. This singular correspondence took
| place in November, 1862