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4 forms are not those which most readily fascinate | tre majority of electors, By the side of ‘that bourgeoisie which approves of the diminution of taxes there are the rad-/ feais, who reproach the Ministry with | retarding the arrival of “the reign of social | justice ;” the Ultramontanes, who accuse him of favoring the enemies o! the Church; the Irish, who prefer to material satisiaction @ few delicate com- jpliments to the national vanity, aad the non-com- formists, whose admiration [or Mr.,Gladstone ts | Dased upon the nope that he will aid them in de- | stroying the Estabitshed Oburch of England, Hav- Ang such material to deal with, and) having to con- end against toe fuinrheartedpess and laxity of such 0; his followers a5 had no special crotchets to advocate, it is little wonder that the Premier was ‘worsted in the encounter. REMARKABLE SPEECHES, The occasion has called forth remarkable speeches from Mr. Gladstone, Mr, Lowe and Mr. Disraeli, all oftnem (ull of personalities and hard hitting. There has always been much personal acrimony | between Mr. Gladstone and Mr, Disraeli, Only on | ‘one occasion 1D my recollection was any attempt made by either to add auythimg to the ordinary oficial Parliamentary courtesy, and it was Mr. | Disraeli who went out of his way to say uailly | thing. “The right honorable gentleman,” he said, speaking of Mr. Gladstone, “my right bonor- able friend, if he will permit me to call him so.”? ‘Tne House of Commons cheered; but when Mr. Gladstone, cold, ascetic and unimpassioned, rose to reply, he Merely referred to the previous speaker as “the right honorable gentleman.” In these re- cent passages of arms Mr, Disraelt has undoubtedly had the best of it. In nis first speech he was caus- tic and epigrammatic, somewhat undignified in his sneer at Mr. Gladstone’s religion and anfortu- nave in one of two of his assertions; bat tn his last speech at Newport-Pagveli, when he had an Ankling that the conservatives were going to win— and there is nothing which so helps Mr. Disraeli as wuccess—liis audacious chaff was simply sublime, Two of nis great points were; one when he de- elared that, as be had enfranchised the London ‘University, Mr. Lowe, who sits for that academical Borough, was virtually indebted to him for his geat—‘-a seat which he did not grudge him, know- ing that the presence of Mr. Lowe wassuMficient to destroy its extstence;”’ and again when, after al- luding toc doggere! verse which Mr, Gladstone bad been foolisu enough to quote, in which “beer ‘and ’bacca”’ were made to rhyme wit “the Straits of Malacea,” Mr. Disraeli, with @ shoulder shrug, said to bis audience, “This is whas comes of giving one’s days and nights to the study of Homer!?? 4 NEW HOUSE. The personnel of the House will be entirely changed. By far the greatest loss to the House itself 4s, irrespective of party, the defeat of Professor Fawcett, a man pre-eminent in the science of political economy, bold, outspoken and judicial minded. Conservatives will regret the absence of Sir Jonn Pakington, a wortny old gentleman who, | | | | as First Lord of the Admiralty, satin Mr. Disrneli’s Tost Cabinet. He is a prominent man im the tory party, and it is not improbable he may yet find a Beat somewhere. Conspicuous by thetr absence ‘will be Mr. Tom Aughes, Mr. Bernal Osborne, the rit and joker of the House; Mr. Ayrton, whose in- wolence and boorishness have been too much even for the electors of the Tower Hamiets; Mr. Jacob Bright, who has probably fallen a victim to his earnest advocacy of woman’s suffrage and his earnest opposition to the Contagious Diseases act; Mr. Roger Sykyn, Baron Rothschild, Mr, Edward Baines, the proprietor of the Leeds dieroury, and others. The brewers are tm fullest force. “Beer and the Bivie” has been adopted as 8 rallying cry, and it is certain that those who manufacture | the former article will be nobly represented; | ‘whether those who attend to the latter will be | equally successful is a matter of question, From | ‘what one can perceive the members of the new Pariiament are on the whole inferior in education and social status to their predecessors. Two work- Ingmen, Mr. Birt and Mr. Macdonald, have been elected respectively for Morpeth and Stafford. Both are miners, and only known in their immedi- ave localities; but the irrepressible Odger, Lucraft and Bradiaugh have been ignominiousiy defeated. Anew member, weli known in America, is Mr. Ashbury, the yachting man, who bas been returned Jor Brightcna, LONDON FOG. London was again enveloped in a dense fog dur- ing the greater part of Friday, the 6th of February. To a stranger its density was unpleasantly gloomy, but Londoners, who delight to buast of that famous December fog, considered it as something ‘sunny and tropical.” Yet yesterday’s was avery disaa- trous fog. You have heard, time and again, that anecdote about the gentleman going towards the Thames and asking a dripping form where he could Gnd theriver. “Walk on @ few steps further,’’ answered the one accosted, “‘and you will be in it, tor Ihave just come out of it.” We are reminded Of this story When we read that a servant gir) named Liurdie, living at the house of the lock- | keeper at East Molesey, did actually walk | into the lock basin during the fog and was drowned obelore assistance could be rendered her. The plague of darkness proved most disastrous to the shipping on the river, An iron screw steamsnip, the Ambassador, NEW YOKK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. tended to be emphasized being heard. third speaker, fortunately, was a commoner, Colonel Vaughan, aa Irishman, | should say, with @ g00d voice and an articulation quite unexceptionable, which enzbied all tne as- sembiage to hear every word of his very common- place rhetoric, for, like the preceding speakers, ho had no kind of partiaiity to arguments of any kind. He was a fair match jor Sir Rovers Peel, of the op- position meeting, ana though he grew tediousand| A Pen Portrait and Lite evidently dida’t know where he was in bis speech, or else was in the habit of reeling off his taik by the half hour with fecility to chop of when time was up, he was listened) to attentively, Lord How- ard, of Glossop, dropped back into the aristocratic humdram of vague and spiritiess deciamation, Which continued trough the proceedings, with the exception of an argument op the part of Mr, Allies, to show tue unconstitutionality of the Folck laws. The Earl of Denbigh, the Master of Herries and the Master of Lovat added their part to the demonstration of the curious weffective- ness of the aristocratic element in & public move- ment, an ineffectiveness natural enough, however, in the proprietors of the bine blood and better clay, eveu if Protestant, but, when we add to this the greater exclusion for 80 many years {rom pub- lic adairs and popular sympathies, more accounl- able in the Catholics, A TAME AUDIENCE, If the platform was duil and tame, however, the audience was far from being a0, They came vo be pleased and eathusiastic, and they were so. They were not select, though they doubtiess contained enough Of what 18 most respectable to have outnumbered the Protestant meeting without the infusion of what might be called the irrational element which made up for the austerity of the dignéaries by the impromptu displays of spirit and droliery in the more retired parts of the house, where the brogue was not infrequent, while in the gallery near the platiorm was one daughter of Erin more spirited than over-decorous or orderly, Who occasionally interjected her ad- miration or appreciation of the points made (gen- erally the name oj some person specially oonox- tous or the reverse), and who launched out now and then in a comically sbrili and strained voice and a grotesque action, throwing her shawl back from her shoulders as she struck her attitude and vented her opinions, She was invariably cut ‘the { THE MASTER OF GERMANY. ; that the man’s life has been one of dogged, restless short by @ push which upset her or a pull which | brought her down, or by being bonneted by some of her neighbors, which generally gave rise to a short and ineffective rush for the offender and the ejaculation of sundry and divers epithets, tar from complimentary, when sbe subsided again, Every mention of the “martyred” German bishops was the signal fora storm of applause, and every men- tion of Bismarck for a northwester Of groans and hisses, which seemed interminable and powertul enough to drown any sound Jess than that of a | trumpet, When Colonel Vaughr concluded one of his rhetorical flourishes with the summary o: Cath- olic persecutions “from Nero to Cromwell and irom Cromwell to Bismarck” the demonstration of ap- plause rose to the frantic and, | should say, pretty near the maximum height that pubiic opinion in this shape is capable of rising to. Every mention of Ireland, in any connection, called out new and vociferous applause, which showed pretty nearly what was the dominant element in the composi- tion of the sudience. ‘The hall was beset all the evening with candi- dates for tie pleasure of berag stifled and squeezed in the solid Crowd. The heat and closeness of the room were tn my OWN experience something un- exampied, and all this, with an added force of policemen at all the doors, could not keep people trom crow4ing in and some irom wedging tneir way vi et armis—elbows at least—into the already compact mass, Tne persistence of would-oe hearers overcame even the obstinacy of the bopbies, and well dressea women, repelled for the tenth time or more, finally pushed by and actually got within the space, which by any mathematical or hygienic calculation was already full, Then there were boys, too small to be edifled but not to be enthusiastic, duly provided with tickets, while in general the representation of the very ‘lowest stra- tum” in my part of the house was as homogeneous as that of the very highest on the platform; and when, escaping belore the actual winding up of the proceedings, to breathe some air (the gases remaining in the room being only of the aspbyx- tating kind) and avoid the final rush out, I went down the staircase, 1 found people sull qguarrelling With the policemen on duty—who had been rein- forced— because they were not allowed to enter, anda one gentleman, in a highly exalted state of mind and incoherent form of speech amusing him- | that of the Middie Ages. self and some of the bystanders by going up and | down a few steps of the staircase, and indulging in epithets and language with reference to the obdu- rate guardians of the peace which certainly the Church wouid not sanction, though, from the cir- cumstances, it could but condone them, As a demonstration of universal opinion certainly the meeting showed a most marked superiority to any Protestant movement I have seen. Ail the expressions of feeling showed & unanimity which the others had not—a far more intense interest in the subject than those showed; but the singular want of mtelligent appreciation of the true charac- ter of the German crisis which was remarked of the anti-Popery meeting in the same place, on the 1,200 tons register, laden with 400 miles of tele- erapnic cable for Brazil, broke away from her | moorings at Woolwich and was driited rapidly up the river by the flood tide, and did immense damage to the shipping at anchor in the neighbor- | hood, carrying away twenty-eight colliers from their moorings. Two coal vessels, heavily laden, were run ashore in a sinking condition. The comi- | cal side of the catastrophe was, however, the | seareh for the Ambassador, Owing to the thick- | hess of the fog she could not ve seen anywhere on the river, even when @ p.Werlul lime lignt was thrown upon the river. She was finally found by two enterprising tugboats and towed to a place of © Saiety. London fogs are not to be laughed at. They are unpleasantly dense and gioomy this winter. GEFMAN EMIGRATION. One hundred and thirty-four thousand one hun- dred and ninety-one persons sailed for the United States from the three German ports of Stetvin, Hamburg and Bremen during the year 1873. U1 this umber 2,301 sailed irom Stettin, 69,176 trom Ham | burg and 61,214 {rom Bremen. Of the number who sailed from Hamburg 44,278 shipped direct to va- rious ports and 24,595 via England. All the latter nd 36,000 of the iormer sailed for ports in the United States. Of the emigrants proceeding from Bremen 45,673 shipped to New York, 12,078 to Balti+ moreanad 2,771 to New Orleans, Only 8,000 emi- grants left Germany by sailing vessels. On ac- count of the scarcity of work in america some hundreds of German emigrants returned to their homes in the closing months of the past year. German ship captains report in the Nord- deutsche Aligemeine Zettung that ney are Ire- quently prayed by their fellow countrymen to be taken back (to tieir homes, being without work and without money. We doubt, however, whetber the returned emigrants would find a happier state of things in the Fatherland, The land proprietors would not embrace their offer of assistance in winter time, and work 1s scarce in the large cities. The fact that in Vienn& over 30,000 workingmen are out of employment proves that ‘hard times” are pretty universal this winter season. The Religious Phase of the Canvass. Lonpon, Feb. 7, 1874 Certarnty, #9 tar aa numbers and enthusiasm are voneerned, the Mecting m sesponsa *e those held jast week to encourage Prince Bismarck was @ | triumphant rejoinder. It had a noble auke in the | } chair, instead of the promise only of an earl; it nad | a house packed so fuil that its overfowing made meetings larger than the Protestant meeting, aod am andience that cheered everything avtered, including much that was very in- mdible, and @ great deal of very bad oratory; 4id in (his respect the Meeting was not calculated © give & favorable estimate of the training of Catholic noblemen for elocutionary activity. Nothing would be tamer thun the speech of His Grace the Duke of Norioik, B. M. (What that means J have 1ound bo one to tell me), unless It might be thas of the Earl of Gainsborough, which was im- | audible to the greater part of the assembly and which sounded very much Uke the reading of a’ bata Lows, vow and tuen 4 word Which Was in , seaside 9 | more marked now, part of the English speakers at least, was still It was all declamation and protestation, and no fortunate foreigner dropped in to give the information as to the facts oi the | case which Mr. Thompson so opportunely gave to his fellow Protestants, I can only remember the crusade of Peter the Hermit, and counsel the English Catholics to mingle more wisdom with | thetr fervor in jutare. Disraclian Rejoicings in the West Indies. The steamship City of Merida, which reached New York yesterday, brought news from Nassau, N. P., to the effect that a grand ball was given on last Monday night at Government House to 200 of the fashionable Banamians, American Visitors and naval and rollitary officers, to celebrate tne re- turn of Mr. Disraeli to power in England, POLITICAL PROPHECY, Last May a Hera. reporter interviewed John Pope fiennessy, ex-member of the House of Commons Snd now Governor of the Bahamas, tel in this city. In reply to our reporter, the Gov- ernor boldly jorecast the political horizon of Eng- Jana. Mr. “Hennessy said:—‘Mr, Disraeli is the must popular man in England. His wise refusal vo take office when Mr, Gladstone was deleated on the Irish University question shows his knowledge of the country and his confidence in the popular Voice. At the next general election Mr, Disraeli Will have a majority.” ‘The Governor a)se foretold the election triumphs of the home rulers, CORONERS’ CASES, The Murdered Watchman—Autopsy on the Body. Deputy Coroner Marsh yesterday made a post+ mortem examination, at No. 792 Eleventh avenue, on the body of Nicholas A. Schweich, the murdered watchman in the employ of the Hudson River Rail- road Company who was shot on Wednesday even- ing by an uoknown assassin while in the discharge of lis duty. The doctor jound a pistol shot wound 0} the right side of the chest, half an inch in diam- eter aud two inches to the right of the right nipple, and on a line with the right uipple. The builetentered between the fifth and sixth ribs, passing downward through the lower lobe of the right Jung, aud was found imbedded in the body of the tentn dorsal vertebra. ‘Ihe right pleur cavity contained two and a half quarts of fuid biov Death was due to internal hemorrhage, re- sulting trom the pistol shot wound of the cuest. Captain McKiwain, of the Twentieth precinct, nas not been abié to Ovtain the least clew to the mur- derer. Fatal Snowballing Casualty, Leicester Booth, a child nearly four years of age, whore parents live at No. 157 First avenue, yester- day died, as alleged, from concussion of the brain, caused py having been accidentally struck on the head with a snowball, watle playing with some other small boys Om Sunday last. Coroner Wo loan Was notified to hold ap inquest on the bouy An examination, however, showed that death re- sulted irom natural causes. — Found Dead. Jerry Fitch, aman fifty-five years of age, with- out home or means of support, was yesterday fonnd dead in the cellar of premises No. 600 West Forty-eigith street. Death is sapposed to have re- suited from want and exposure. The was sent to the Morgue and Coroner Lickhof noti! hold ap inquest | leader, and the insurrection of Berlin, which he | was in every Way cut vut for the work, when that gentieman was at the Filth avenue Ho- | duced a new style of parliamentary discussion so | their literature and customs and considered them BISMARCK. Sketch. HIS CAREER, CHARACTER AND HISTORY. The the War Against Church of Rome. BERLIN, Feb. 4, 1874, Prince Bismarck stands on so high a pinnacle that many have forgotten by what sort of climbing | he came there. Some would describe him as an edi- fying instance of political good luck; others would | gravely dub him @ great statesman, without know- ing wherein he was great, nor why; fewremember | and undaunted fghting—a struggle against | opinions as well a8 men, a determined pushing for- wardof one cherished scheme in the face of obsta- | cles that would have used up twenty average statesmen even of good metal, but which in his case have weakened the body without impairing the mind; worn the nead white and baid without ex- tinguisbing a spark in those big, keen eyes which , glare over iascinated Europe like those of a lion who has not yet finished his preying. Otho Von | Bismarck-Schénhausen was “born in 1814, at Schdnhausen, om the Elbe, and was ed- ucated first at Gbttingen, then at Berlin and Gretfswaid. He voluntarily enlisted into the light infantry, and, being of ex- | cellent family, W&8 soon transferred, with a licu- | tenant’s commission, to the landwenr. By this time he had made himself a name among students and brother so!diers for great bodily strength, courage fierce as a bulldog, and a hatred of liber- eralism which verged close on monomania. He had fought anumoer of duels, ail of bis own pro- voking, and all with youths of that dreamy German type who movalize om natural afMiniues and sentimental radicalism whilst drinking beer. | One day, sitting in acayé, he heard @ middle-aged , man, who Was 4 stranger to him, emit some re- pabiican opinions, not ostentatiously, butin sim- ple conversation with @ friend. Bismarck rose and, with that compound of stiff courtesy and | arrogance, Which is bred in the bone of Prussian nobles, said:—“If you speak another word in that Strain I shall empty my sokoppe in your face.” | ‘The threat being disregarded, Bigmarck was better | than hus word, for he flung the beer and the glass tankard with it, Such a fire-eater was not of the kind to suit a Prussian agricultaral constituency,. where toryism meant feudalism, little altered from Thoge gross and addle- pated country barons, who felt certain they held their nobilitary privileges by divine right, and whom the spread of democratic ideas scared as some- thing diavolical, were delighied to find a champion prepared to go any lengths with them and even jurther than themselves, They elected him member of the Diet for the Province of Saxony, in 1846, and member of the General Diet or Prussian Lower House, in 1847. The events of 1848 were then brewing all over Germany, and young Bis- marck contributed his share to the work of con- cillation by declaring that all the great cities of Europe ought to be swept away as being the hot- | beds of democracy and constitutionalism. He in- | f@ugurated 8 new style of pariiamentary oratory by giving bis opponents the lie direct. He would burst into loud and derisive laughs while liberais were speaking, and if one of them paused, jump up and shout that he was ready to continue the debate out of doors and hand to hand, In his own | speeches he advocated in the Clearest terms the prerogatives of the Crown and of the aristocracy in Prussia; the ascendancy of Prussia over the o*her German States, ana the unity of Germany to the exclusion of Austria, It should be mentioned that he was @ capital boon companion, ate well, drank hard (but not to excess), and was more generous with his money than is the common failing with Germans. His energy and social qualities, added to a bluff sense of humor which enabled him to throw ridi¢ule on theories which could not have been worsted by logic, ha acquired him @ position akin to that of party personally joined in crashing, added to his im- portance by many cubite, There was something almost savage, however, in the trony with whicn the favorite orator of a now triumphant reaction reviled the defeated liberals for their ruined hopes, They were being hounded over the country and out of it, despoiled, imprisoned, hanged and shot. Bis- marck was for showing them no mercy, and he might have established a character for more than | common hard-heartedness had not @ few truly | nobie acts of magnanimity, accomplished in secret, proved that there were in him two men—the public partisan, who was implacable, and tue pri- | vate gentieman, Who was ready to aasiat with his purse and his influence the escape of outlawed | enemies who haa come and appealed to him, King | Frederick William 1V,, who knew only the public | man, and whose tmpotent soul was afame with the humiliations he had suifered when the tn- surgents had forced him to bare his head before | th@ebe! dead who were being carried under his wisdows—the King took a@ violent liking to Bis- | merck, and, in 1851, appointed him’ to | the Legation at Frankfort, one of the most sought alter in the diplomatic service. It needed an exceptionally tough man st that moment to combat the influence of Count Redsberg, the Aus- trian President o! the Federal Diet, and Bismarck | During | the eight years he remained at Frankiort—witha | few months’ break only during a temporary mis- | sion to Vienna, in 1852—ne missed no occasion of thwarting the policy o! a nation which he spoke of as Prussia’s natural enemy. Just a3 he had intro- Gid he assume a diplomatic attitude all his own of never concealing his objects, but biurting the truth straight out, leaving hostile Ministers to believe him or not as they pleased—and they gen- erally did not please, deeming it incredible that a man should te candid enough to cloak no second meaning under his words. The greatest triumph achieved by Bismarck over Austria at this june. ture was her exclusion from the Zollverem or Custom’s Union, and in 1858 he anonymously pab- lished s pamplet entitled “Prussia and the Italian Question,” which made a great stir by preaching the trebie alliance of Prussia, Kussia and France a8 & means to the unification both of Germanyand Italy and the final overthrow of the House of Haps- burg. Frenchmen would do weli to recollect that at this time Bismarck was vot at all imbued with that inveterate hostility to their country which has been ascribed to bim as dat ing, ike Hannibai’s towards Rome, from his early boyhood. He was, on the contrary, rather attached to the French—enjoyed as future allies who were to aid him in the work of | aggrandizement he had at heart, and to receive in | poyment al) that England might allow them to annex of the Rhenish provinces, Moreover, he professed a great admiration for the Emperor Napoleon and his system of government—though this admiration did no extend to French states men, every one of Whom, with the single exception ot M. de Morny, he despised aloua and heartily, There 1s a characteristic anecdote told concerning him whilst he was Ambassador at St. Petersburg, whitner he was sent on leaving Frankfort im 1859, Being at @ party at the house of the French ambas- sador, the Duke Of Montebello, and the conversa- tion having fallen on French poitticians, he let himselt be carried away into saying such caustic things that the sensitive Duke writhed without being able to finda word in reply. It chanced, however, that M, de Montebello nad @ mastiff chained in his yard, and this dog set up ® furious barking when Herr Von Bismarck went out to get into his carriage. Here was the Frenchman’s anance of revenge. He few tothe window and | leaning over the baicony, cried out, “YourBxoel- lency, please don’t bite my dog.” BISMAROK AS MINISTRR. With his mission to Russia ends the alplomatio part of Herr Von Bismarck’s career. Im 1861 the present King Wiliam having ascended the throne, found himsetf face to face with a powerfully constituted liberal party. The opposition had-won @ large numberof seats at the general elections; and, in opening the session of 186%, the King thought good to declare, as a sort of defiance to these antagonists, that the Prussian monarchy was” emphatically one of divine right, aud that constitu- tional concessions were acts of royal grace and nothing more, The opposition answered by carry- ing an amendment of Herr Hagen on the budget, and the Cabluet of Herr Von Auerswald tendered its resignation, The King refused to accept tt, dis-- solved the lower House and prorogued the upper; but a few days later ne eliminated all the liberal Members of the Ministry and recast it under the presidency of the Pripce of Hohenlohe, who was, soon aiter, succeeded by Count Bernstoff, a tory of! still deeper dye, This did little good, and at the new elections the triumph of the opposition was over- whelming. The Ministers, compelied to try what temporizing might effect, delayed summoning the Parliament and spent the interval in experiment- ing on ‘iveral measures, Some taxes were abol- ished, ® treaty of commerce was signed with France, the new kingdom. of lialy was recognized and the Cabinet prevailed upon the elector of Hesse to restore the constituuon of 1881, which he had confiscated from his subjects. ‘This served only to encourage the opposition, and | when the Chambers met the motion for supplies for reorganizing the army was defeated by & strong majority. There seemed to be only one man capable of managing the uaruly Commons, |-and this wag Herr Von Bismarck, whom the King | summoned from St. Petersburg and commissioned to form a fresh Cabinet, not on principles of paciai- cation, but of resistance, The new Prime Minister | was then forty-eight. Time and the society of foreign courts had not damped much of his youth- ful ardor, but they haa taught bim a good lesson or twoabout not ramming one’s head against a stone wall when such a proceeding can be avoided. He therefore set to work in a soothing spirit, and delivered a few most able and cautious speeches to assure the House that the increase in the army was not intended for reactionary purposes, But the liberals betrayed much scepticism on this point, They contended that for all purposes of | | peace an effective landwehr was more useful than an immense army; and, on the motion of Herr Von Forkenbeck, they voted a series oi amendments to the budget, which Herr Von Bismarck had de- clared would be. ruinous and) impracti- cable. Then all the irom im the Minis- ter’s composition seethed up to the surface. Journalists were prosectited, organizers of Political meetings were flung into prison and in- dicted for conspiracy. The feudal party im the House of Lords voted the budget which the Lower House had thrown out, and the Ministry, declaring that this sanction was enough, prorogued the House in spite of a general vote of censure, and proceeded to levy the taxes as if nothing had hap- pened. This was to all intents a coup d’ctal, and Bismarck, along with all his colleagues, clearly de- served impeachment; but the liberal party had not at this time that one man of will who in such oases can raise banner against banner and lead a whole host after him. The next session—that of 1863— ‘was spent in recriminations and in new acts of an arbitrary nature. Tne insurrection in Poland seeming to gather strength, the Prussian govern- ment concluded a secret treaty with Russia, and sent some troops to aid in quelling the revolution, at which the Lower House, incensed by this vicla- tion of neutrality, passed a new vote of censure by @ majority of 2461046, But Bismarck had ceased to care, and, the better to mark his contempt for the refractory chamber, declined to recognize the authority of its electea President, This ledtoa new crisis, The King took part with the Ministry and the Lower House was dissolved again, a aecree being at the same time launched which suspended the liberty of the press and rendered it amenable to the régime of aamonitions and suppressions which was Nourishing in France. Bismarck was thus in the ascendant, but he was too shrewd aman not to see into what straits he bad put not himself alone, but the Rohenzollern dynasty and the very existence of the Prussian monarchy. The new elections returned a Parlia- ment more liberal than ever, and it 1s & question whether either King or Cabinet could have weathered another session had not iate at this very opportune juncture brought about the death of Frederick VII. of Denmark. THE AUSTRIAN WAR, Little events lead to very big causes, and Herr Von Bismarck must have more than once pondered over what would have become of him had this | vanish King, who was not an old man, survived | for a few years longer. Prussia might have set up into a federacy disbanding her kings and princes, and Bismarck might have lived to be pointed at in some exile home as one more example in that gallery of fallen autocrats of a man who had tried to block up the safety valve of popular freedom and becn blown up in the attempt. But Frederick, luckily for him, died and Prussia and Austria pounced upon the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, and when next the Prime Minister had to confer with the Parliament of Berlin upon home mat- ters it was with the prestige of military conquest thick upon him, Still the voice of freedom | and justice was not dead yet. In the sessions of 1864-65 Dr. Virschow, Herr Jacoby and the Deputies Twersen and Prentzeld proved sturdy ex- ponents of those ideas which neither blood can quench nor fire destroy, and Bismarck must have more than once seen the future loom ahead | in no very brilliant colors, for he never was a fatal | ist of the Napoleon school. He believed neither in good luck nor providential calis, but only in hard, unceasing work, He rose at six summer and win- ter, worked at Foreign Office business till twelve, smoking hard and drinking black coffee or beer to stimulate him. At-midday arude meal of under- done meat, which was cailed lunch, but which was dinner, and then without @ pause for digestion or talk, to work again till it was time to go down to the House and meet either Virschow or Twersen, who were fresh and eager to bait him with their denunciations. No wonder the effort to appear strong and dauntless under such circumstances olten resulted in splenetic outbursts of peevishness; and no wonder that Bismarck, finding he could do so by ierretting in the rusty arsenal of Prussia’s laws, endeavored to gag two of his most relentless adversaries by a government prosecution. Twes- ten and Prentzel were criminally indicted for speeches delivered in the House, Jacoby was gotrid of by a sentence of six months' imprisonment for remarks uttered at an electoral meeting; and as for Virschow, Bismarck was for sending him a chale lenge, and was only prevented from so doing by the interposition of mutaal friends, who undertook that the leader of the opposition should moderate himself for the future, It was amidst these home cares that Bismarck played his all-in-all the Austrian war. It is well known how he suc ceeded, It is less well known that, waiting on the field of Sadowa while the issue of the day was still uncertain, and when nothing but tne arrival of the Crown Prince could decide the victory, he drew his watch and lighted a cigar. When the cigar was halfendea the Prince’s vanguard was signalled in the distance, and the Minister, turning to a friend, said, “A jew minutes ago the span of my life wag no longer than this cigar; if the Prince had not a: rived by the time I had finished it I should have been found this evening amongst those dead yonder.” A more excitable man would have talked of suicid more fanatical one would have hopea that, Sadowa lost, the mischief might be repatred on anotherdey, But Bismarck keeps aloof from ideals, He sees facts as they are and when he suc- ceeds keeps cool: when ne fails judges the conse. quences of his mishap at a quiet, rapid glance, BISMARCK AS A GERMAN. There havo been greater ministers, for there have been and are men who have preferred the moral intereste of the nations they governed to the dangerous grandeur of conquest, and the uni- versal improvement of the human race to the ex- clusive bettering of their own people. But judged by the light of the impulses that are in him ana which have been bred by family tradition, fostered by education and devélonad in tha society of kina | 904 statesmen, for whom the march of Intellect ts # were empty phrase and the rights of free thought nd speech an idle subtlety—judged by these im- pulses Bismarck ts @ truly great man. He has NOt sought his own profit, but that of his country,’ according to bis own deliberate conception of it, Though honors have ‘been 'showered upon bim be ‘values them no more than as trophies of the work he has accomplished, and ho would of a certainty Fenounce princecom and domains could he enjoy ‘the health that was his ten years ago and the prom- ise of years enough to consolidate the structure, whieh has ‘beem bullt up so fast. that he may well | entertain hidden’ fears of {tg crumbling away a8 rapidly, I€ ‘Was not his idea—thab an- nexation of Atsacte ana Lorraine, To keep on the flank of’ France an ever open sore | which should prevent her chiidren from slumber- | ing, would never have germinated tn the head of a man who has based’all his schemes In the-patytotic sentiments of his people, and knew that these sentiments are of as abundant growth on one side | of the Rhine aswell as on the other. But military | {mduence overraled him and the results remain to | ‘ve seen. A good father, a husband little inclined | to domineer at: home or make his presence felt | beyond thé study fireside where he reads the novels of the mation he has conquered, in the rare hours that are his in notiday time, a pleasant land- lord much liked by villagers, a deft sportsman and @ lover of music, Prince Bismarck has ae much of the human blood’ in ‘nim as the tron. His latest undertaking has been @ war upon the Jestits, wno | have found in hime worthy match—for the man | must work, mast fight. When be has no more | unsubdued enemies left, should that happy time ever come, he may, perhaps, be found by some astonished Freach reporter sitting under a tree on | his Pomeranian estate, and declaring, as he laughs over the latest squib of M. Alexandre Dumas, the | younger, tha: efver'all’Prance is La Grande Nations: THE WAR AGAINST THE CHURCH. Up to the present time he has conquered in every straggie. Let it suffice nim, for in his war against the Chureh he '1s certain to be ultimately defeated. The tmprieonment of Archbishop Ledochowskt is one of the very few foolish things which Prince Bis- marck has ever done; How silly it is may be proved to demonstration. The Archbishop has been’ fined no less'than 380,000 thalers. Now, con- considering that‘a-débdt of 100 thalers involves an imprisonment of si% wéeks, according to Prussian law, the’ Archbishop must remain in prison for thirty-three years before he can purge him- | self of the fines’ tmposed upon him! The Germans, who'are inclined to take reasonable views of Prince Bismarck’s recent proceedings, are therefore naturally asking what the Prince is going to do with the other bishops, who are being condemned, day atter day, to fines, which they re- fuse to pay. For instance, the case of the Arch- bishop of Cologné 1s a hard one. All his property | has been’ already setzed, and it 1s understood that | he ts about tu seek refuge in Holland, Will Prince | Bismarck insist‘upon bis extradition, in order to | shut him up for life? He has been declaring lately that he will declare war against France un- less her policy ts Virtuatly anti-Catholic. Will he de- clare war also against Holland and likewise against every other country where the persecuted bishops may fy for retoge? Ifso, no wonder he has made the question ofa ‘federal military law for the new empire ue has established, the principal feature of hid speech at the opening of Parliament, which has just met. Prince Bismarck has simply a mania for fighting; snd in any strife where strength and downright pluck could heip him he would come off victorious, 88 fie always has done. The Church, however, is under the special protection of the Goa of batties, and this stern. resolute German has yet to learn the strength of her artillery. One might have expected from Prince Bismarck almost anything but a Diunder, and in attacking the ‘Church he has committed several. LA MARMORA AND BISMARCK. What the Italian Oficial Charge Against the German Premier Amounts To— German Policy for Frontier Rectifica- tion in 1866. (Rome (Jan, 29) correspondence of London Times.) * * © There is no doubt that La Marmora’s publication was politically both a crime and a blunder; it has been visited with unmeasured condemnation by all right-thinking men in this country; the necessity of guarding against such a scandal for the future is universally admitted and will be promptly acted apon. Still, General Go- vone's letter 18 in print, and Govone is dead and unable to speak for himself, The charge | of audacious falsehood and malignant cal- umny 80 emphatically and in so public a | manner jaunched by Prince Bismarck must fall on Govone, uniess the Prince means to insinuate that | declaration. had been o! a to forego t enting fhe oficer, Couns ‘Now, who wil fire the train— taly?'? 1 asked the President of the Council whether he knew tue text of the reply re- turned by Austria to the proposition of the Con- fom and whether the Prussian goveroment had ieeean Cores way rene course It pry) — ia a similar reply relative to Its par. ticipation tu a cont stce and wheter he (Count Bismarck) had abandoned tae idea of proceeding ta Par The President of the Council replied, “I be- aoa periecd acquainted with the Sesiae, re i negottation calculated to change the relative position as Powers of the parties} therefore if neither the cession of Venetia nor the cession of the Elbe tes can be discussed, the conference would be useless. We expect, more over, to-morrow to know oat ran Austriad text to decide us. We @ that France, in face of the reply, of the Bree oat in fn, of the’ ‘enetia, 0! | last act of Austria, which refers the question of the Duchies to the Diet and violates the Treat, Gastein, Sit Qetosive tné settied design of austria to refuse all arrangement, and will not seek apy | Jonger to protract Degotiations which are uselesd and which are prejudicial to us, Such con. duct on the part of France would be a prool of its loyalty towards us; should it act otherwise it would provoke our suspicion 4s to its intentions. For one reason I should have been giad to have gone to Paris. I would have wished to haye had an interview with the Emperor, in order to ascer- tain the maximuin of concessions which he desires us to make to France.” asked whether, besides the Rhine, there was any portion of the country where a vote in favor of annexation to France might succeed in eny way. r Count Bismarck replied, “None. ‘The French agents themselves, Who have traversed the coun | try in order to ascertain the disposttion of the inhabitants, report that notiing but @ fictitious vote could be obtained, None love their own gov ernment or the reigning dynasty within their ows territory, but all are, and desire to remain, Ger mans. so that nothing remains but to eh ipe Fran with the French portion of Belgium diMcuit; but * Switgcriand,” bi replied that that was extreme that if it was impossible to make the popular wi! avaiable, perhaps some other principle could be pot forward, such, for instance, as that of natural oundaries."* J added immediately that “I did not mean to make any allusion to tae bank of the Rhine; but was there not some other geograpbica line which might be acceptable to France’ Count Bismarck answered—“Yes, there will be the Moselle. 1am,’ be added, “less German thaa Prussian, and J should have no difficulty in asseat ing to the cession to France of all the coun aa lyu between the Khine and the Moselle—the Palat: nate Oldenburg, @ portion of the Prussian die tricts, &c, The King, however, under the influ: ence of the Queen, who 13 not Prussian, would Nave grave scruples, and would only agree to it af & decisive moment when he should be on the point of losing all or gaining all. At all events, in order to work upon the King’s mind, with a view to any kind of arrangement with France, tt would o¢ necessary to know the minimum limit of that Power’s demands, because, if it were a question o} the whole leit bank of the Rhine, Mayence, Cob Jentz and’Cologne, 1t would be better for us to com¢ to an agreement with Austria, and to abandon the Duchies and many other things,” ‘ “But,” said I, “with Austria there is no othet Mode of settlement than a capitulation, since the questions in dispute involve ita most vital inter: ests and its juture, which forbid any compromise.” “Tt is trae,’ iT Fephied Count Bismarck; *‘out Ger - fey opinion would absolve, the King of that capl- lation if it should be justified by the determina tion not to transfer any man terns! 18 foreign Power.” ‘Then hé added that the King not abandoned all hopes of peace: that quite late he had entered into secret negotiations wit! Austria to bring about a settlement, and that without his (Count Bismarck’s) knowledge. ‘Fore tunately they were destined to come to nothing,” said he, * so the King will be the easier com vinced that it is not possible to come to any 98 ceptable arrangement with Austria, even inae pendently of myself. Even at this very moment the Duke of Baden” (I did not caten the name) “is at Dresden treating about @ peace. Scarcely had the question of a conference at Paris beem raised than the King wished to suspend tne de- parture of the Guards from Berlin, in order te testily his desire for peace. To-day we have had t¢ fignt hard—I and many Generals—to induce the King to allow the Guards toleave. He became irritated, but at last gave way. The Guards teave to-morrow,’ “and the Rnine corps?” I inquired. “They were on the Saxon /rontier three dayw go,’ replied the President of the Council, Count Bismarok then reverted to the argument with whic! he opened the conversation—viz., whether Italy oF Prussia should begtn hostilities. He said that it would be very difficult to induce the King to sssumeé the offensive; that the King made it a matter of re ligion, a superstition, that should not assum the responsibility of a European war, and that meanwhile time was being lost ana that Austria and the secondary States wor: compleuing thelr armaments, and the probabilities of success fos Prussia were diminishing. The interests of Italy were also in that manner compromised if the vio tory remained with Aastria. ‘Italy,’ he added, “can easily begin the war; to prepare witn that ob ject a provocation on the part of some Croat for the purpose; and it may rest assu that the mext day we should be across the frontier.” fT replied that Italy was in a very delicate tion, and that it caused it to be deClarea at in the public sitting of the Corps Légisiatif, that would not take the initiative of any attack, that it had since repeated in every manner that Italy was bound to pay ao, atten tion to French public opinion, and not to render dificult or impossible any action of the Ei ro? Napoleon in its favor by turning against hat ublic opinion by which the. Emperor was ed. taiy, besides, needed to prove to Kurope its wis dom and moderation, as in some portions of ea rope the real state of affairs in Italy was Mttle known, nor the absolute authority of the goverm ment over the entire country—over the army aa Govone’s despatch 18 an impudent forgery by Gene- ralLa Marmora. ButI need not say that no man | in Italy would ever admit that such an accusation | & republic; Germany would have unified herself | | as Prince Bismarck’s words convey could apply | to etther of the two gallant ofiicers alludea to in his speech. La Marmora i8 @ crotchetty, con- ceited, unpractical man, soured by ill-success anc by what he considers want of proper appreciation of bis merits and services on the part of his coun- trymen; but that he isthe very soul of honor no other hand, Govone’s letter was only borrowed, not taken away irom tne archives of the Foreign OfMice, and any man, Prince Bismarck himself not excepted, can easily examine it and satisfy nim: self about its authenticity. With respect to Go. vone’s character, it is not even necessary to ques- tion hig own countrymen, as there is scarcely an officer in the English and French armtes of the Crimea of 1855, or in the Prassian staff of 1866 it- | self, who would not bear witness to the singular | uprightness and the high chivalrous honor that distinguished him. “If such men as La Marmora ana Govone are not to be credited,” every Italian is ready to say, ‘it is vain to look for common hon- eaty anywhere in Italy.” Prince Bismarck could hardly have hit on two men to whose veracity tae | very shadow of suspicion could with greater dim- ‘culty attach itself. at Govone stated was not that Prince Bis- marck had in plain words expressed his readiness to part with German territory, but simply that Prince Bismarck had conveyed to him hts appre- hensions Jest Austria, who was preparing for the | struggie, and was anxious to en rance on her side, should make some overtures to the Emperor Napoleon tending to purchase his goodwill by the cession of the Prussian Rhenish Provinces, where- upon Prince Bismarck gave Govone to understand that two could play at that game, and that, if France was to be bribed with Ger- man territory, she might as easily come to terms with Pruasia as with her adversaries, Had Bismarck sald that Govone had imperfectly under. stood him, and had given too much weight to ‘words that were purely hypothetical and condi- tional, he would probably have acquitted mmseif of all Dlame Witnout criminating @ man now in nis and whose afiirmative he can only meet by a bare negatwe. He did not see that he defended himsef™ wita unneces- sary warmth and protested too much. He forgot that he was not in 1866 the Prince | Chancellor of the German Kmpire—the Prime | Minister of @ victorious State, sufficiently strong | and ian to be safe against the combine attacks of all Europe. In 1866 he was only at the head of @ Prussian Monarchy which had been for years, and With doubtiui success, striving tor the | supremacy in Germany. He was about to venture on & War in which he mast reckon on the enmity not only Of the whole of Austria, but also o: haif Germany, The odds were, in everybody's estima. tion, formidably against him, and above both him- sell and his adversaries there was France, for many years accustomed to look upon hersel/ as the arbiter 0: the world’s destinies, and determined ta suffer no alteration in the map of kurope which ‘Wus not productive of gain to herself. The Italian Minister’s Despatch from Berlin=‘The Queen Who Is Not a Prassian”—“And the Rhine orps?” The following 18 a translation of a despatch pub- shed in the Italian newspapers at the instance of General La Marmora, in reply to the recent speech of Prince Bismarck in the German Parliament denying the accuracy of the documents quoted in the General’s work, Un po’ piu de luce, THR DESPATCH 1s addressed by M. Govone, the Italian Minister at Berlin, to General La Marmora, then Minister of Foreign Afairs:— BERLIN, June 3, 1866, EXGELLENCY—Having requested & parting titer: view with Count Bismarck, the President of the Counel received me yesterday, at nine o'clock, in the garden of the Mintatry of State, and conversed with me until ten, 1 have ‘acquainted His Excel. Jency with the eum art Of Colonel Avet, a very distingui: officer of the Italian army, ap- pointed by the King to accompany the Prus- stan army in the event: of war. I added bnak os events were daily bevomlug more ree a man ever doubted or could doubt, and, on the | | Bismarck concerning negotiations quite recently | well as over the volunteers, Count Bismarck again dwelt se that subject at length, and begged me to speak of it to Your Excellency and to the King, in order that in taking | the first step tocommence the war King William | might be mduced to ‘put an end to hesitations | Which are enurely favorable to our adversaries, | especially now that all the secondary States hav | deciared for Austria, or are about to do 80. promised to communicate his wishes, without giv- ipg him avy ground for believing that they would be granted; after which he concluded by saying | that when he should have induced the King tc take the offensive he would communteate the by telegrapli and by different lines to Florence, As to the military attitude, it wagup to that time | ee deiensive and expectant, and afforded na ground for anticipating a speedy aggression. Buck is, the su 'y_of the last conversation J have had with Count Bismarck, and my impression is that be | 1s endeavoring by means to precipitate matter and to bring about an early commencement hostilities, Woat.s particularly to be noticed by the Florence government is the statement by Count entered into by King William, witha view to an arrangement with Austria, and those which are still pepcing. These may hardiy, perhaps, achieve any result, but even the remote possibility of such an arrangement should cause Italy to reflect sert- ousty and to calculate beforehand the momentous consequences it might involve. GOVONE, THE NEW STEAMSHIP SCHILLER. . pune i sane Dieritea The Third Vessel of the Eagle Line=Hex Dimensions, Machinery and Accommo- dations, The new steamship Schiller, Captain John Q, Thomas, the third vessel of the Eagle line, hence to Hamburg, arrived at this port yesterday morning, and js now at the company’s dock, Hoboken, ad- joining the Christopher and Barclay street ferries. The Schiller will rank with tue finest ocean steam packets which do the carrying trade of the At- lantic, and is of the following dimensions :—Length on deck, 375 feet; breadth of beam, 40 feet; depth of hold, 82 feet; tonnage, 3,600 tons, builders’ meas- urement. Her rig 1s that of a brig. The motive power consists of compound, vertical, direct-acting engines, having two cylinders 104 inches in diameter, with a stroke of piston of 4 feet 6inches. Steam is supplied by four boilers, each having six furnaces. The propeller 13 19 feet in diameter and 29 feet pitch. In this department she has every improvement, and gti possible means have been adopted as to security and provision against fre. The machinery, a8 well as the bull, t# Irom the works of Kobert Napier & Sons, of Glas- Ow. oohe accommodations of the Schiller ay of the first’ order, The saloon, which is forty feet im length and nearly the same in breadth, ts hand- somely furnisued and will prove very comfortable. The cetling ts fourteen feet nigh, having a raised skylight, which imparts a bright and cheertat appearance, such as seen in but lew steamships of this class, The staterooms are very large and are appointed inthe very best manner. The second cabin passengers are provided for on the main deck, and the steerage passengers will occupy that portion of tue spar deck which in some vessels is das the second cabin. The latter will have apartments, each accommodating ten or fifteem persons—a pleasanter arrangement for passengers pa being huddied together 1n one or two large sections. Following the Schiller will be the Lessing, Wie> land, Kiopstock, Geilert and Koerner. HOWES AND MACY. Several of the creditors of this firm metiat the oMce of Mr. Isaac Dayton, No, 322 Broadway, yes terday aiternoon, to hear the report of Mr. J. Nel- son Tappan, assignee tn tne case, upon the condl- tion ofthe affairs under his control. The latter gentleman, who was appointed to the {ea tion on the 24th ult, advised those present that forty-five per vent of the indebtedness would be paia within ten days. One or two of the creditors remained alter the announcement and qnestioned Mr, Day- ton relative to the examination beiore him as reg- Pee marae duid would. 9e. comFiaued. trom yet commenced an time tu time, they did not a@liti{ much af a satiqnas tory nature. wer sage om sept