Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-28
OLD WORLD NEWS.
PROGRESS OF MATTERS TOUCHING
THE NEW CUSTOMS UNION.
Germany's AnitGrain Law Agitation
The Emperor's Tour-Is Cardinal
Gibbons to lie Pope?
copyrighted 1891, by the New York Associated

Press
BERLIN, June 27.-The Ministerial Coun-
Gil which Emperor William has held pre-
liminary TO his departure on his foreign
tour disposed temporarily of several ques-
tons relating TO the home and foreign
policies of the Government. The Minis
tiers have received instructions to accele-
rate negotiations for the formation of
central European customs union, to leave
the proposed commercial entente with
Russia IN suspense. to treat the anti-grain
law agitation as non-exlstent unless food
rlots occur. and to issue a lottery amount
ing TO S,000.000 marks 10 assist III further
ing the enterprise of Major Wissmann In
East Africa. Some proposals looking TO
the amelIoratIon Of the condition OF the
poor of East Prussia were also discussed
at the council.
Tue NEW CUSTOMS UNION AND SWITZERLAND.
Touching the new Zollverein, the Swiss
papers with French lcanings erroneous
~ state that the Government at Berne
has its hands tied by the new tariff
adopted by a., vote Of the fede-
raj Assembly. The negotiations which
have thus far been concluded have DIS
posed of this objection, each country's
tariff being subjected 20 arrangement by
the coming CONFERENCE OF the countries III
terested in the Dreibund. The ZollyereIn,
1t seems likely, will expedite a customs
agreement with Belgium and Holland,
which Luxeinburg will share. Communi-
cations proceeding from Brussels and the
Hague tend in that direction.
TIE ANTI-GRAIN LAW AGITATION.
Regarding the grain-law agitation the
assumed indifference of the Ministers does
not lessen the public ferment, and symp-
toms Of popular outbreak IN consequence
of the high price OF provisions have mani
tested themselves at several places. With
IN O short distance Of the Imperial Palace
at Potsdam 4, 900 women who were market
ing becoming, enraged at the prlce demand
ed for potatoes, assaulted the dealers and
wrecked the market.
The TGgcbtdu IN lis issue of tonight re-
ports that Herr Miguel, Imperial Minister
of Finance. in the course OF n conversation
with a member of the Reichstag, stated
that only the present critical stage OF the
negotiations of commercial treaties pre-
vented the Government from repeating the
grain law.
TIE SUSPECTED FRANCo-RCssIAS ALLIAScE.
The Berlin papers to-day comment upon
the statement recently made by NJ. flOu-
rens, eX-Alinister of Foreign Affairs OF
France, during the course of an interview
III which the ex-Alnister admitted the eX-
Fiourens declares that while he held the
Office Of Minister of Foreign Affairs diplo-
matte notes equivalent TO o treaty We're
exchanged between his Government and
Russia, and that these notes arranged for
common action by the two countries. VI.
Flourens, who has Just returned from
Moscow, where he met the Gar, adds that
the formation of this alliance IS the WOrk
| OF the Gar himself.
SALISBURY AN ALLY OF TIE DREIBUSD.
These statements. appearing simultane-
ously with the BismarcNau articles III the
HamJtug(r Nachrici en- enlarging upOn the
! danger Of a too close isCndshlp with Eng
| land as offensive TO Russia. have evoked
| indignant replies from the seml-Oflicial
press. in which the Salisbury Government
IS openly spoken of as an ally Of the Drel-
| bund. This alliance represents the general
| belief that within a recent period Lord
| Salisbury has become party 20 secret
| convention committing his Government;
| so long rs it remains IN power, to concerted
action with the Drelbund.
srBv1A AND TIE CzAB.
The Foreign Once attaches considerable
| iInportancet TO the coming visit of the young
! KING of Seryla TO the Gar and 20 arrange
| mo [, mad to give the visit distinct
| no iiical significance. The King VIII leave
| Bclcrade July 9th. He viii be accompa-
MED by NJ. Paschics, the Servlan Primo
| Minister: Crown-ReCent Resttlch, and
several Court dignitaries. Inc Gar VIII
| receive his rOval visitors at Moscow. Inc
| friendship of Servia for Russia Will not
| hinder the Handclsgeselschaft from lend
! ING tho Government 5000 900 marks Tor
military purposes ThelOan IL taken at
! 7tlL yer cent. anl Will bear interest 1T
per cent.
TIE SUCCESSION TO POPE LEO.
The reference made to the letters from
| Rome regarding the candida'ure OF Cardl-
nal Ievigerie TO the Holy See have aroused
| the antagOnism OF the Germans to the ldea
| of French Pope. The KrGu /'1hmg hints
| flat il is probable the successor to Leo
Nil. will be drawn from the Italian Cardi-
ualate and that if the next Pope be not an
! Italian then the choice of the cOnclaye
viii be Cardinal Gibbons, of the Arch
! diocese of Baltimore, Md. against whom
neither national jealousies nor internal
| clerical differences can operate.
TIE ROYAL FAMILY IN BRITAIN.
! The North German GGze'is states that the
/ Crown Prince sFriderich Wilhelm and the
| other sons of Emperor William Will remain
| in the new palace until July 5th, when
| they viii follow the Empress Augusta We
! toria TO the Isle OF wight, where they VIII
! remain several weeks. Every leading
| court official Will attend the Emperor
! durlng his stay III London, III accordance
with his Maiesty's expressed desire. Lord
! Salisbury has instructed SIR =. Is. Malet,
! the british Ambassador 10 Germany, TO
! attend the Emperor during hi, official re-
ception, in England. The press follows
| with interest the preparations pcihg maze
! in ENGLAND tor the EiuperOrs reception
| and are pleased with the prospect that his
| Nlieety's love for State and pageantry Will
! Le fully grahiied.
TIE SOCIALIST CONGRESS-.
! Uacren Rebel. Iiebknecht, and Sanger
! will represent the German Socialists Inter-
| state international Congress OF That party
! IN Brussels, which IS to open on the l7th
! ~ Auoust. aud where it l. expected there
| will h., present 80 delegates from Europe
and America. Aside from the usual So
! cialistic questions the Congress VIII nave
/ a distinctive character as attempting 10
! arrange for close cO-opeTatlOh uct"ceh
| workinrmen's unions and dealing with
! matters heretofore foreign 10 DISCUSSION
| by their organizations.
rHorBLr IN TIE SOUTHWEST AFRICA COMPANY.
Tho directors Of the Southwest Africa
COMPANY have disagreed and have begun
6tig6tion which has led 10 certain DIS
closures. Brueckner, one of the directors,
| accuses ex- Director HeniZelmann OF having
Inisappropriated the company's iundS. Inc
| books of the company have been taken
! uossession of by the courts. Herr Hem
aelmanu asserts that certain entries nave
been falsihed and that the directors are
| intriguing to turn him out.
FoRGERIEs CONFESSED.
Herr Mayer, the director of the Messe
branch of the German state Bank, VINO
was recently sentenced to ten years I'M
"r'sorment for systematic forgery and
| frand. Yesterday confessed TO numerous
! forceries amounting 10 100000 marks.