, 1890-08-06


until their meetings are over. They will
try to discover a 1nOdNs Utvendi, and as
there are plenty of weak States to plumber,
they may discover one.
Prince Bismarck has evidently received
some hint from the Court not to ia X so
much to intervieweIs, and is furlously
angry thereat. On Sunday, q deputatlon
from Berlin presented him with an address
from 10000 citizens, and he addressed
them in reply, saying that he had lived
forty years in their city and would gladly
have lived longer, out that he had been
obliged to depart, chiefly because his
colleagues we're no longer in unity with
him. He felt a little like Prince Meter
mich, whom he did not wish to initiate,
bat who said, when dismissed, that he had
descended from the stage to the pit. A
man with a pit ticket was surely entitled
10 c~riticise, though not, perhaps, %With %
shrilI whistle. A man out of Office was
not deprived of his intellect and as he
possessed his old amount of intelligence,
he would not submit to dictatiOn. 1t was
his duty to be free with his opinion, aud
he could not be q dumb dog. He had
done nothing beyond supporting the peace
policy, and people ought to be grateful
10 him, instead of angry, for talking to
Russian interviewers. "To expect me at
this time Of day to become a farmer, aud
nothing more,-is it possibIe7" The effect
Of the speech to British ears is an uudig-
niied querulOusness /; but we have endea-
voured to show elsewhere that Prince
Bismarck resents the pressure put upon
him to be silent, and is displaying very
much his accustomed nature He still
thinks, not unnaturally after his career,
that his words have the weight of acts.
1t is wonderful, considering his recent
position, hOW little Importance the world
attaches to them, now thGi the reader need
not listen for the tread of arpjes marching
il their support
The new Brazilian Constitution was
proclaimed by decree OH june 22nd, and
will apparently be ratified by the Repre-
sentatives, but not submitted to the peo.
pie. In the main, it resembles the Con.
stitution Of the United States but the
President is elected by Congress, and holds
Office for six years. The Ministers are
made responsible to him alone, and Con-
greSs has no authority to dismiss. That
body has, in fact, only legislative power,
and, we suppose, the control of the purse
but it is invested with some vague right.
called in the telegram the "mOleratiug"
power. We presume this to mean that,
while the States have q large measure Of
independence, Con .ress can, III extreme
circumstances, compel them to keep within
the limits of the Constitution, secession be-
ing thus forn@lly declared to be illegal.
The telegram is wretched y drawn, and
no explanatory details have arrived; but
IN a country like Brazil. a President with
the legal powers of the American Presi-
dent, and the great influence Of the central
Government on elections, will be very like
a military Dictator. The new Constitution
will he in Operation in November, and the
first efforts Of Congress must be directed
tQSthe financial problem upon which "the
States and "the Republic m " be found
TO hold very different opinions. Three of
the former at least, it is said, cannot pay
their own expenses, a cardinal condition
Of any Federal system.