, 1888-04-08
Foreign Affairs.

Copyrighted, 1888, by N. Y. Associated Press
BERLIN, April 6.-Prince Alexander
OF B~attenburg comes to Charlottenberg
mex Thursday and his betrothal TO Prin.
cess Victoria takes place early in June.
Prince Bismarck has withdrawn his
resignation secretly. from the consideration
that Germany, under the domination of
Empress Victoria, would lead to a speedy
break up Of German unity.
Nothing since the expression of En-
peror Frederick has occurred that has 50
strongly animated Prussian conservatives
against the empress and the marriage
question. All the Radical newspapers
treat the Batteuburg question with dis
daln and as of no consequence to the Ger
man policy, and ignore the fact that Bat
tenburg is only one cherd in the general
dlscord struck by the party of the IN
press. The reticence of the Berlin press
in referring to court intrigues being
greater than was required by Difference to
the emperor and the leading officers of
state, the B~attenburg marriage becomes
almost a minor incident in court intrigues.
Among other successful schemes, the
emperor had been induced to send to
Count Won Moltke a series of statements
IN the condition of the army, followed by
a request that the general be present at
the meetings OF the commission on re.
form in the army. Count Won Moltke
replied that it would be impossible for
him to preside over the commission with
out knowing how it was constituted and
what reforms we're desired. Conse-
quently the commission has been dropped.
Another move of the party of the en-
press Is to overhaul the diplomatic ap
pointments. To-night's National Zeitmq
said that circumstances may arise under
which Bismarck will no longer oppose the
union. This, it may be, would mean a
postponement of the affair until the ju-
dlcial objections raised shall cease TO Oh.
crate. The visit of the queen OF England
to Charlottenberg will take place as ar
ranged, but the betrothal will not be pub
licly brought forward. This is an official
statement, and simply means that Bis.
marck's advice has been overruled.
The queen of England comes here with
her %Battenburg proteges to carry out her
family projects without regard for the
sentiments of the German nobility or the
German people, and equally regardless
that her daughter, the empress, thwarts
the policy Of the minister (Bismarck),
who made her empress, and without
whom imperial Germany might cease to
be. Bismarck in his position does not
rely on the military party. He has the
support Of the whole country and of the
royal heads of the German federation. He
is really master of the situation.
To days bulletin saws that the malady
from which the emperor is suffering now
appears to be moving from the back OF
the larynx more to the front, which is re-
garded by his physicians as a favorable
symptom, because the danger Of the dis
case attacking the aesophegus will be thus
averted.
The empress will go to Posen on Mon
day to inquire into the condition of the
sufferers by the floods. Dreadful accounts
have been received from Posen. Two
hundred and fifty villages are in RUNS and
$4,000 persons are without shelter. When
the dykes at Worth gave way a large
number Of lives were lost. The loss of
live stock is incalculable. A famine is
threatened in Posen, Pomerania and
Silesia, and tho number of persons emf
grating to America will soon be enor.
| mously increased,