Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-29
FROM TIE GERMAN CAPITAL The Emperor Will Witness the aaala CoweS Regatta.  ifslr MEETING OF HIGH OFFICIALS But the Object of Which Is Held as State
 Secret. BULGARIA IS AN IMPORTANT TOPIC Prince Ferdinand Predicts Violent Death for Himself-The Congress of Cath
 olics Will be on a Large
 Scale.
MEETING OF HIGH OFFICIALS
BULGARIA IS AN IMPORTANT TOPIC

Berlin, July 2S.-Although the health of the empress is steadily improving, 1t is not likely that she will be able to go to Sassnitz in time to be there when the emperor arrives. On Thursday the kaiser was at Swedish Nyland, where he landed from the Hohenzollern, and gave a picnic party in a grove situated a mile in the interior. On Friday he was at Bergholm and on Saturday at Helsing- born From Helsingborn to Sassnitz is a short trip. The emperor is in constant communication with the empress, how ever, and in the event that her physicians decide that she ought not to venture on the journey to Rugen, the emperor Will come to the new palace and pass two days with the empress there before he starts for England, where he will attenl the Cowes regatta
 Letters received by their friends from several officers of the imperial yacht Hohenzollern tell of jolly times on boa,d that vessel during the kaiser's trip.
 The report that an entente has been es- tablished between England and the drei- bund in, regard to concerted policy concerning the Balkin States is generally discredited here. Count GoluchowShl, the Austrian minister of foreign affairs, had long conference with Emperor Francis Joseph at Ischel on Thursday and on Friday went to AltausSe to see Prince Won Hohenlohe, the German chancellor, who is sojourning there It was the iirst meeting of these two statesmen as lead ing ministers of great powers aithouSn they were personally acquainted With each other. Prince Hohenlohe was Gel- man ambassador to France during the ba Count f.DlnchDWgkl was Secfe- tary of the Austrian embassy in Parls, and the two then met very often. Ihe official press are unable to say whether the recent meeting of the two ministers was anything more than one or mere courtesy, and handle the subject With a marked degree of reticence as to positive statements Whatever may have pass between them the tone of the North Ger man Gazette articles indicates that Ger many is not committed to following the lead of Austria in Bulgaria.
 "Germany," says the Gazette, thoueh not indifferent to what may happen III Bulgaria, will maintain an attitude or reserve" ,e.
 Meanwhile Prince Ferdinand has leit Carlsbad and joined his mother ana ms wife at Coburg, ostensiply 10 asslst III the ceremonies in memory of his fatner, who died July 26, 1881. Prince August or Saxe-Coburg and other members or the Coburg and Bourbon Orleans famlnes joined the group on Friday and the meet ing was as a matter of fact, the IaInly consultation upon the question or Fer dinand's retirement from the Bulgallah throne in favor of his son, Boris, who IS year and 6 months old. Princess Glenn entine, Ferdinand's mother, whose money and pluck have persistently packeu her son in his requirement. and retention ol the throne wants him to remain in Sofia at any risk and apparently her counsel was needed and her propositions ac- cepted.
 According to telegraphic advices re- ceived from Coburg yesterday, Prince Ferdinand will return to Carlsbad to complete his course of the waters, after which he will go to Vienna and later to Schwarzau to join his wife and son, passing a few days with them before starting to Sofia. Princess Marie Lou ise, with the young Prince Boris, will not venture to go to Sofia until things have ouieted down, but will remain at Schwarzau until Ferdinand thinks 1t safe for them to go to Bulgaria. Carls- bad gossip has it that Ferdinand is very Respondent and tells his intimate friends that he feels certain that he will meet an early and violent death
 In regard to Russia's recognition of Prince Ferdinand the Pesther Lloyd, the Hungarian official organ, declared ex- plicitly that such action on the part of Russia would by no possibility suffice to give nm a SIdIuS WltH llle Oluei POWOiS and calls attention to the fact that the treaty of Berlin debarS Russia from eX- ercising any preponderatng influence in Bulgaria.
 A story has been going the rounds of the Austrian papers which, whether true or not gives very clear idea of the feeling against Prince Ferdinand which pervades Austria. It is asserted that Prince Ferdinand recently sent a large order to the wine merchant in Pesth who has long supplied the princes cellar with Hungarian wines, and requested that the shipment be made immediately. The merchant at once notified the Bulgarian master of the household. through whom the order was sent, that he refused to have any further dealings with the man who was most guilty of the murder of Stambuloff.
 Telegrams received here from Vienna say that Austria is about to initiate ne- gotiations with the powers in regard to the election of ruler for Bulgaria in the event that Prince Ferdinand in displaced.
 It is reported that the congress of Cath ol:cs soon to be held in Munich will be the largest gathering of the kind ever held in Germany. The committee on or ganiZation has issued a circular appeal to the Catholic popular associations and religious and political groups requesting them to send full representation of dele gations to the congress. The aim of the committee is to reconstitute the center party in the reichstag so as to bring it up to the strength and efficiency which it possessed during the time that Dr. Wind- thorst was the centrist leader in the chamber. The difficulty in the way of this object lies r t so much in the ac ceptance of common programme as in finding a great leader. 'The obstacles in the way Of the complete harmony" says Germania 'have vanished, and the work of the congress will have profound right affecting Germany and the world"
 Baron Von Hammerstein, late editor in-chief of the Kreuz Zeitung, has is- sued a statement dated at Sistranns Ty- -rol, in which he declares that the scan dals affecting his reputation are most malicious, as they combine truth with fiction, the lies predominating. The baron takes occasion to inform his en-