The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-04-02
Prom Dur Regular Correspondence
OUR EUROPEAN LEI TER.

Br'aLrN, g kRdAsf, .Marchll, 1880.
Tho Reicbstae will, h has boon decid-
| cd Adjourn On the 18th. The commit
Itee of Tie Roichstag to whom was
referred the bill for the proiongetion of
tho law against socialism has decided
to report in favor OF pfolonRinQ the
operation of-thc law until the, 30th. of
September, 1884, ilii'sfcad Of 1885, as
proposed by the government, and also
in favor Of declaring tho law for the ex-
pusiUn OF members of the Reiclistag
and Landtag from Berlin imperative
during the session. Prince Bismarck
has presented In tho 1ieicbstag q paper
ON emigration from Germany during
1879, showing that 33 1877 persons, two
thirds OF whom were males, emigrated,
by far the greater number going to the
| United States and British North Amer.
lea. The imperial budget fixes the
revenuesnd expenditure for the next
fiscal year at 539, 252, $40 marks each,
and the matricuiatofy contributions of
the different atates OF q total Of 81 &c.
$50 marks. A report ia current that
Herr Bitter has rendered his resiQpa-
ton as Prnssian Minister OF Finance.
owing to q difference with Prince Bis.
marck. Herr Van, Bennigsen Is tanned
as his probable successor,
Prince Alexander of Bulgaria and his
father, Prince Alexander of Hesse, the
brother of the Empress of Russia, are
coming to Berlin to participate In the
celebration of the eighty-third birthday
OF, the Emperor William OH the 22nd
, inst There will also be present King
Albert and the Crown Prince Of Sax.
ony, the ducal families of Baden, An
halt, Mecklenbnrg- Schwerin and Neck
lenburg-Strelitz and numerous other
distinguished persons.
Folks will say anything but their
prayers, and 1t Ia just possible that for
, uttering a single word concerning the
late catastrophe at st. Petersburg that
is not an ejaculation OF condemnation,
some people will call me an Nihilist.
What does invite my contempt, how
ever, is that In good society II is not
considered to be catastrophe ut all,
, bu: an escape from one. The blowing
to pieces half a score or 80 of faithful
/ soldiery is accounted MS nothing. Not
, word about that appears TO be sung
/ i'll the 1e Deums; while tho circum-
i stance that no ono OF regal descent has
been injured fills us all with irrepressi.
, BILE gratitude. What Is still more curl
GUS is that some wiseacres In the press
4 are demanding "strong repressive
measures" for putting al end to Mill
ism. One would think that nobody
has been sent to the scafIold; and that
hundreds and hundreds of young mon
and young women were not every
9 week transported to Siberia for 'ssym-
n pathy with Instruction" 1t would be
c some time before | took TO dynamite,
O but if ] found myself In a country
5 where Justice was not to be procured
3 except by bribery, where nobody was
+, allowed to express his opinion unless
I they wero in accordance with those
held by cOurtiers and officers, and
y and where ones family were exposed to
+ the insolence and brutality of every
0 Jack-in-Officc, confess | should have q
:, very strong sympathy with insurrec-
0 ton" myself. Soldiers and police have
c proved utter failures to rcpress Mill.
] ism-the misery of the offenders is toe
4 great, it is like the alderman's attem pt
: 10 "put down suicidc'-and il my opin-
: ion were asked (Which strange TO say,
+ it has not been) by the Home Minister
= of Russia, | should say, "Instead of re-
: preston which only covers up the sore
= anu uocs llOt neal IL, Try llttIc JUSTICE -
}, Illogical as Nlhiism may be, despotisn,
0 is hardly less so. We are assured b,
q telegram that this last escape ''has pro-
I duced the deepest impression on the En-
l peror, and is Interpreted by him as q
a sign of a mission direct from Provi-
D dcnce TO cover society threatened with
dissolution.
e There seems to be little reason to
s question the truth of the statement that
! Prince william, eldest son of the crown
: prince, will soon be botiutlied. The
, lady is Princess Augusta Victoria, cid
est daughter Of the late Prince Freder-
, lex Of Schlcsw IL Ii Observation-Disclosures
! An .ustemborg, and not Princess Caro-
line Mathilde, daughter Of the duke OF
, Schleswig Iiolsteil, as previously re-
ported. LOUIS.