The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-22
GERMANY.
London Tablet, August 81.

London Tablet, August 81
The DISTRIBUTION OF PARTIES IN THE NEW
REICaSTAG.
Now that all the German elections, general
and supplementary, are over, may guage
with almost perfect accuracy the relative
strength of parties Five of the members have
Lsen IT turned for t Vo places each, which will
necessitste five ne elections to be held after
the meeting of the Rechstag. Bat as it is GER
tain that the new members to be then returned
will represent the same political views the
may q1ite ignore the fact of these double re-
turns. There are also about six or eight men,
bers, concerning hose party connection rumor
speaks with an uncertain voice. 1t may be
assumed, however, without much fear of error,
that If they do not belong to the National.
Liberal section, they will fill in with the Con-
servatiVes. The numerical increase of these
latter is one of the chief characteristics of the
new Reichssag. This increase amounts to
more than forty members, most of whom have
supplanted Nation al Liberals This party re.
turns to the new Assembly with seriously di-
minished numbers and prestige.
If We reckon connected with it certain
offshoots, WHO usually act with tae party, al
though declining t, be included within is or
ganlZ alton, the lessee mluut to fRly So seats
The total number who may be rsckoued as
Conservatives, including the Imperal who
are sure to support the Government through
thick and thin, although little disposed to
coincide in the general views Of the Couserva.
tive politicians amounts to III The National
Liberals and their associates capnot marshal
gone least change. both in respect to ite num-
bers and 10 its personnel, is the Centre or Ca |
|tholc party. In many of the German party |
nd that certaiu IDENTITIES ara
not counted as u;em bers Of th party, although |
Z he Catholic journals invariably reckon them |
as belonging 70 it These persons are certain |
HanoVerlan Deputies, who have always pro.
TESTED against the forcible snnex aticn cf their
country by Pccssia, although accepting the
present arrangement of affairs in Germany
Some Of them are Protestauts But from the
rat fpr Hf = Tap
ago, all these Hsnoverans have cordially CO.
operated with it, acting ard voting both in
pnbnc and in private. as if they were regular
anem bers and they have been go treated by
heir fello~ Deputies. Toe total strength If
Fhe party is nov 1G5. 10 of whom are these
lpecial Han0verians. During the late cleo
IONS they lost seats aod won g. of which
we're gained in Hanover As allies of the Cen.
pre- palt on III pOrtant OCCASIONS, we m1st re- | ,
Fsrd the Polish Deputies, IA in number, and
me = e; Alsaoe PIotesrers numbering 10. The
|htlre strength of the three divisions amounts +
p ~ votes, being by far the strongest party G
b the new Assembly. :
The party whose decline is perhaps the most I
panlfest, is that of the Progreseists In the a
seiohstag which came to an end in December I
e16. they numbered 46. In the last r sichstag S
pey had sunk to 35 In the new Assembly b
eey will reckon only 26 OF the ID seats a
Ihich the Socialists s had In the last Reichstsg n
ley have been able to retain only bnt they u
ave gained new ones, so that their NJ sm bers b
lll b9 g. FINAL y, the Alsatisn Autonomists S
eno mem bers instead of 81 and q recent or |,
eniz alton, the "People's Party" will be rep o.
sented by members. One Dane is sent by d
Pe people of North Sohleswig to protest %
BaInst the forcible retention of this district C,
I Prussia, in oontravention of the Treaty of u
hague. r,
IIhe following is synopsis of this poi ty dis pl
Ilontlon, which differs somewhat from that
noted by US last week from the Colonge Ga a,
e' tt
onsorvatyes of all shades. III 81
Stlopal Liberals with their associates.-- lu7 81
ne CentIe. together with Poles and Alsatan Pro.
ocTesSist l29 a.
,SE ~
topples Party" "....-..-... ~ a 49,
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