BISNARCK AND QUEEN VICTORIA. How the Iron Chancellor Effected His Purpose

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 308, 17 October 1888, Page 3

BISNARCK AND QUEEN VICTORIA. How the Iron Chancellor Effected His Purpose

It is needless to explain that the follow ing 1 conies through an American channel :—: — London, August 10th. — The ' North German Garotte' stated in a small, unobtrusive paiagraph the other day that the papeis of the late Emperor Fredeiick which had been taken to England had been ieturned. An uninformed reader of the paragraph would scaicely ha\o believed that it was the announcement ot the termination o£ an international difficulty which might easily have culminated in a war between England and Germany. The papers which Queen Victoria took from Charlottenbmg when she visited her daughter and dying son-in-law, weie Stabo papers and belonged to Germany. i J iince Bismarck infoimcd Queen Victoiia of this tact and asked that the documents be returned to their owners. The Queen, however, did not look at the matter in the same manner that the German Chancellor did, and refu&ecl to surrender the papers, of which she had pos-essed herself of a laige trunkful. The next summons for the delivery of the documents was not so gentle nor polite. It was addressed to Lord Salisbury, and set forth that the papers were the property of Germany, and , that the Queen had no more right to bake them out of the country, or in any way touch them, that? she had to walk in and carry ofF the crown jewels. The Iron Chancellor accompanied this second demand for the papers with a grim thieat that unless they were restored he would send an army to London which would accomplish their return. Lord Salisbury's efforts to make the stubborn Queen understand that she had no right to do as she had done, and tocomince her that the documents must be given up, caused the worthy Premier bo have a relapse of his old enemy — the gout, and to be really ill over the accumu'ating troubles. Pending the Queen's decision to surrender the papers the English Government was cub off from official news from tho German court, and Lord Salisbury was not permitted to know anything regarding the avi'angements between Germany and Russia for the disposition of Bulgaria. The Queen held out for some time, but finally gave in, although in her heart there is a new-born hatred for Bismarck and the Germans. Now that Bismarck has accomplished what he set out to do, the immediate friction is Amoved and the wheels of state move 1 easier between Germany aiid England, though the Queen's unwise act will lonjj pi'event a perfoot exohange of reciprocal courtesies.