GERMANY.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 4, Issue 177, 18 December 1880, Page 2

GERMANY.

•I -*- y j There is not iniicli moving in the jxili- • tie.al world ol' (Jormniiv. The Chancellor, . • overstrained with tho work () f the hist session, hus retired (o liis cuiuitry sent fur a short vest. jlc jirolxitilv sees tliut the Eastern Question will presently tux nil . his energies, and he lias resolved to. eomo ' fresh and vigorous to the contest. Trndw is said to be slightly better throughout. the manufacturing districts of the'empire. . and there are evidences that, the leading manufacturers are seeking to extend their trade with our colonivi. with India and China, and with South America— notably * in the Argentine R"public. Tin: Melbourne F.xhiliition has special for (lerinany. sine? those who exhibited '• at Sydney have spoken so well of that , Exhibition has special attraction!* for ' (iermanv. since those who cxhihited at Sydney' have spoken so well of that " Exhibition. The Export (Hub is a great . power in iierlin, and as it loses no oppor- , (unity of uetpiiring knowledge in respect I to the value of nur colonial trade, and , of scattering the information obtained I broadcast through the empire, our readers , will not he surprised to hear that the : (ierman exhibitois at the Melbourne K.v- ---' hibitii.ni will number about (!!)(). The ordinary autumnal interview between tho (.ierniau and Austrian Emperors is this . time considered of some considerable nolitical iinjiortai being the first after" the [ conclusion of tin' Ausir.i-Gernmi] allinne . and the lam before the impending ruvival of the Ka-tern Question. As the Austrian Government have already begun to collect k lie., it is easv te livin: the general p.irport of the conversation uhout to take place ■ botween the two Sovereigns. Should the mobilisation of any considerable number of Austrian troops be brought on by cTents, (ierniau diplomacy ami, if necessary, the German army, will have to cover the rear . of the Imperial forces. Then France may be induced to think that her opportunity has com.'. With such a prospect before us it cannot he a work of supererogation to sny that were u melee to ensue the Hritisli (ioverninint would in Berlin be credited with a certain disposition to take an active part in it for the purpose of elding with Russia, and pussiply with Russia and France. There seems to lie nothing diijnieting in this for the Germans. It in, on thecontrary expected that the agcmii'S which rendered it advisable for Lord Beiieoimfleld to avoid n hostile eiiei.u iter with Russia \v U mulie it even morcdiflloult tor his tucutwion to light fir Russia, At the same time it would he to conceal that thu pie. Russian and uiiti-Aiistriuus, or, which is the j name, uuti-Goiraau altitude assumed by the Liberal Cubiltol is deeply fell ill Gerrniinv. The more rurcly the painful lulijlwl is luciitioued in the proas, the more earuestiv should it he noticed by politii ans. T • engagement will be r-hdrtly unnouiiced between the I'rince of liulguriii mid the Princess /orku, the daughter of the Pt'hicu of MoutOtiegrO. The Dukfl and Duchess of Connnught uro oxpectod on u vlait to the Court uliout the end of August.