, 1881-04-02

the people ; Prince Hohenlohe is diploma.
fist, rather than administrator |; end Count
Hatfield is q possible Foreign Minister,
rather than a Chancellor, but there Is,
also, no one to aid him. He appears to like
no one above the intellectual rank Of aclerk.
Count Aruim was rising, and was prose-
cuted. Herr Falk, after leading tie strug-
gle with Rome, was abruptly flung down.
Herr Camphausen, after being trusted for
seven years as Finance Minister, was not
only dismissed. bat told in the Upper
House of Prussia in a furious diatribe that
be was incompetent. Now, Herr Eulen-
burg, Minister of the Interior, has been
broken in pieces by what we can only
characterize as o prodigious slap 10 the
face. The powers of the Communal Coun-
ellis in Prussia are being regulated,"-
thas is, subjected to supervision on appeal
-appare ntly q necessary reform approved
by all parties. The Government suggest
ed that the regulation should be entrusted
to the official attendants of counties, but
the Prussian Commons thought the Coun-
ellis, which are elective, could do the work,
and entrusted the power to them. The
Prussian Upper House, always against Gen.
tralisation, confirmed this vote, and on
Saturday, Count Eulenburg, as Minister OF
the Interior, accepted the decision. There
upon, Herr Rommcl, q clerk from the
Ministry of Commerce, who had 0een
watching the proceedings from the Minis
terial beach, rose, declared he was IN
charge of a message from the Premier,
and read out a short statement, blankly
stating that Prince Bismarck objected to
Count Eul4nhurgs's view, and should
counsel his Majesty to withdraw ine Bill.
Count E~ulenburg, white with rage and
humiliation at this public dlsay0WaI Sent
through a clerk and read to the Feers, at
once gave in his resignation to the King
who sent for Prince Bismarck to explain
The Prince was Gill; and the Kiog-Emper-
or. q man. be it remembered, of vast age
was compelled to visit him IN person
What passed is, of course, almost unknown'
but next day Prince Bismarck was well,
drove down to the Peers, declared that he
had been misrepresented by a stupid clerK'
who had read his paper, instead OF using
it for notes, sacred at Count Eulenbufg's
excitement, declared himself ready to vote
for the Bill as it stood, and finished by
asserting that the Bismarcks had been
vassals of the Hohenzollerns since Brandon
burg was a Margraviate, 2nd that II his
assailants could say as much, they would
cease from their attacks, for they would
understand him As this excuse is not
an apology, but only an act OF submls
sion to the King, Count Eulenourg
remains only until the marriage OF the
heir-which in Prussia is a grand state
ceremonial. as important as a negotiation
lis completed, and then %retires, never
again. we may be certain, to be employer
while Prince Bismarck reigns. Ia spite
of his Sovereign's protection, the Count is
10 fact, dismissed like a footman, by q
public message delivered through a clerk
so low ia the hierarchy that Prince Bis
marck can disavow him as q lolterhead
without remark. So deep is the excite
mens at Berlin, that many papers reproach
Ministers with taking office under a man
who can 90 treat them, and Dut Tor tue
deep loyalty of the Prussian Services,
which makes it a kind of saorilege to dlsobey
the Kings summons, it really appears as
if Ministers would hardly be found 10 the
usual grade of higher officials. Not one OF
them can be secure thar if he crosses the
Chancellor, he may not only be request
ed to resign-which is fair enough, it ths
Prince is to be President, "a well as
D..-. L.t snh;actad Ia a0me nublIC