The morning times., 1897-01-18

Copyright 1857, By United Associated Presses.
Berlin, Jan. 17.-Under instructions from
the foreign office Baron Saurma Won
Jeltscb, German ambassador to the OTte
has given persistent support to NJ. Nell
doff, the Russian ambassador, throughout
the series OF amhassadorial conferences
held in CUnstantinople, which are now
about TO terminate, but in the discussion
OF the financial and administrative re-
forms proposed by NJ Nelidoff Baron
Saurma has taken no prominent part.
NJ Cannon and Sir Philip Currie, respec-
lively French and British ambassador, are
understood to have obtained some impor-
tant amendments to the Russian proposals
which have now received the assent Of the
European governments. The English and
Italian ambassadors advocated distinct
plan OF armed enforcement of the decisions
OF the powers and argued that the presen-
tation of the reform projects to the sui
tan should be accompanied by an explicit
declaration that the powers were prepared
TO enforce them by sea and land.
The Berlin season is now in full swing
and the past week has been one of almost
incessant feStiyity. The reception given
TO the III members OF court society at the
United States embassy last Monday by
AmbassdGo or Uhl was ma magnificentfunetion.
The amba SsaCor'S salons We're resplendent
with gorgeous uniforms, and the exquisite
costumes of bejewelled ladies, whose dia-
IL onds presented q most dazzling effect.
The guests in attendance included all OF
the foreign ambassadors with their wives,
the leading IN embers OF the foreign en-
bassies. the leading officials OF the foreign
office, Minister of the Interior Won Der
Recke. V on Der Horst, Herr Thielen, minis
ter OF public works; Gen. Won Gossler,
minister ofwar; Count Posadowsky y-Wehner,
minister of the imperial treasury; Count
Won Gutenberg, Count Won Wedel, Prince
and Princess Radziwill, and a number Of
military chiefs.
Following the reception at the American
embassy came Count Won wedel's "Po otter
Abend'' (nuptial eve), given upon the oc-
cas,on of the marriage OF his daughter to
Count Johann Won Bismarck-BohIen, OF
the first regiment OF Foot Guards. The
emperor was present at the wedding dinner,
and presented the bride with a costly
porcelain table.
On Tuesday there was a reception at
the French embassy similar TO that given
ball at the Australian embassy, followed
by dinner at the English embassy, be-
sides a number of aristocratic balls and
other functions during the week.
The court marshal's program OF festivi-
ties during the carnival period opened
with the coronation and orders fetes OF
today.
The trial OF Major Baron Won Tauseh,
.
upon charges of forgery and perjury,
viii not begin before the end OF March.
Almost daily new witnesses are coming
forward, and new charges are cropping up.
The reception of Count GoIuchowski,
the Austrian minister OF foreign affairs.
by the Emperor and Chancellor Prince
Won Hohenlohe on Saturday was OF the
most cordial character, and it is believed
that the assurances which he will receive
in regard to the status OF the Dreibund
powe ers in view of certain Europeans COM
plicatiOus, the proposed increase of arma-
ments and other matters, to obtain full
information upon which was the purpose
of his visit here, will be entirely salts
factory to the Austrian government. The
Austrian ambassador, NJ. de Szogyeny-
Marich, will give a banquet to Count
Goluchowski and Prince Hohenlohe to-
moTr ow.
The opposition of the produce bourSes
to the new bourse laws is still confined
to the exchanges of Prussia proper. Op-
eTatlons through the Berlin, BTeslau,
Stettin, and Dantzic organizations pro-
ceed, but the record OF dealings by no
means comes up to that of the same period
of 1896. The stock bourses are also
feeling the pinch of the new laws acutely.
If the diminution of transactions con-
tinues, the brokers agree, Berlin will lose
her position as an international market
for securities and become merely sort
of minor local bouTse.