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PRINCE BISMARCK,S POSITION.
WILL HE RETIRE FROM OFFICE "A POLITICAL
AND COURT CABAL DIRECTED AGAINST HIM.
berlin FEB. "a Correspondence Of London
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berlin FEB. 24) Correspondence Of London
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The remark of the Berlin papers that they
are Obliged to keep standing at the hea of
their columns the line The retirement of
Prince Bismarck, is at the same time COM
/ plant. The first rumorS of the kind were
published in the rural press, and the sensa-
ton has been industriously fed by Berlin cor
/ respondents, who are more ingenious than
accurate. Some Of them have simply men,
| toned the possibility of Prince Bismarck
ultimate withdrawal, which is a safe enough
| experiment. The Prince is not eternal in
office, no more than he is immortal in physi-
cal life. Others have gone step further and
| assigned dates and causes for his Withdrawals:
and third class, more adventurous than
either, have appointed his successor or ar
! ranged system of succession
Let Us now pass to the assumed motives of
this Hypothetical retirement of Prince Bis
marck. What has lately occurred, will not
say OF nature to cause his retirement, but of
nature to suggest the probability of his re-
tirement? Three events ara assgned-one
political, two personal. The first is the de-
feat OF the Ministry in the lower House on
the Nlrchow motion. have already explained
| the tendency Of this motion. As you already
| know, the "kreisordnung, or counties re-
form OF two years ago, was not applied to the
whole kingdom. The two Rhine provinces
and the province of Posen were, for pruden-
tlal reasons, excluded from its benefits; and
at the time very little objection was made to
this discrimination. But this season, on the
introduction OF the scheme of provincial re-
| form, the Liberals determined to insist on the
extension of the previous county reform to
the western provinces. Professor Nrchow
was chosen to present a motion to that effect
This gentleman is one of the profoundest
physicists of Germany, which does not pre-
vent him from being one of the most capable
legislators, and he enjoys the fur her honor
Of a challenge from Prince Bismarck during
the stormy period that ushered in Sadowa.
tie presented the resolu ion; there was a de-
ba'e, in which the Ministers made a sub
born resistance ami were ignominiously de-
tetted. In strict system Of parliamentary
government this might have neces STATED the
Great of the entire Cabinet bat in Prussia it
involved at most only the Minister Of the In
terror. In PRUSSIA, Prince Bisna.ci; him
SIT has often complained, and as have Ct.en
explained in this spondence, there is no
Premier In the English sense VINO is respon-
siole in the name OF his colleague, for a pol
ic? AMI 10 effective solidarity between the
Ministers as 2 Cabinet.
THE PERSONAL REASONS
are OF a mere Ser.ouS cilr Ter. 1t Is sail that
the physicians OF Prince Bismarck have in
formed Kim that hi, health absolute y rel uires
tie abandonment Of his pol teal labors, an
that they cannot otherwise be responsible for
his lie. l see no reason to doubt that this is
true. Pnysi .ians in charge OF iilu5trious
PATIENTS are not in the habit of erring on the
side t retklesSne,s, but rather the contrary
The Emperor himself would long since have
a1dlea ed If he had obeyed the doctors, and
in the case of Prince Bismarck, his medical
attendants have given him more trouble than
ali the Parliamentary opposition that he has
encountered, They would have sent him
into retirement long before the French war
they wished to get rid Of him two years ago.
and very nearly succeeded.
But cannot learn that the Prince is in a
worse condition this winter than he has been |
for many years. On the contra V, he is, per- |
haps, better on the whole, for his participation |
in the earlier labors of the Reichstag was fire. |
qr1ent and effective He receives few visitors,
indeed, and cannot bear fatigue orexctement; |
but he WAS able, two days since, to spend sew |
eral hours with His Majesty III official work.
This is not the conduct of dying man. 1t is
not denied, furthermore, that the police of
Berlin have repeatedly warned the Chancellor |
against plots Of assassination, and that after
his return from kissngen they advised him |
not to walk in the public streets or to ride in |
an open carriage It does not appear that he |
has paid much attention to these warnings. | |
have seen him this winter walking alone along I
the streets, aid he will, Of course, contiue to
walk or ride in the manner most convenient |
to him. One does not always escape a real
assassin by acting as if all men were assassins.
Now these three cooperating reasons are not
derived from anything that the Prince him
self has said, nor simply assumed as reasons
which are likely to influence him. Ii either
of these theories were true, it would be bad
enough But if the secret history of the In
perial Chancelery ever comes to light it will
be found, believe, that the whole excitement
has been fomented by parties at court and
elsewhere, who are determined to drive Bis
marck from office. They are lagos and some
thing more. They not only play on his
jealousy by depreciating to him his influence
in Parliament, and by exaggerating the
strength of his rivals, but they seek to play
on his fears with the aid of reactionary po
lice and a court physician.