A CONVERSATION WITH PRINCE BISMARCK.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1695, 17 May 1883, Page 2

A CONVERSATION WITH PRINCE BISMARCK.

The Vienna correspondent of the Daily News semis some nofes of a long con versa* tion which an in timafp friend of Prince Bismarck, si member of Parliament, hud with tho Chaucellor in his sick-room a fow weeks ago. The Prinoe had the larger share of the conversation, and is reported to havetaid: Is it not out of all rsason that I should be ill just now? Botticher is a convalescent, Burchard is away, and I must keep to my bed. Wo are netting old end Mok, and dare not ask to be our own master.-*, and devote ourselves to the cultivation of our garden, or the care of cur own affairs. I cannot express how desirous I am to get off for a few days and rest, after the confusion and turmoil of my everyday life. If I could have it my own way, I hhould see no one for a whole year, except wife, children and grandchildren. Wo ought to live for them by rights, nnd I am prevented fiom doiog so all my life. Why, the next thing is that some councillor or other will read me a report in the morning how the members of my family are after the night's rest, and then there will be so much timft saved again. Tho Emperor is a brave old man, as we could see in this last misfortune that has befallen him. Not one of us all has the nerves of tha august old gentleman. I might say that as long as work is demanded of him ho has no nerves at all. It is our luck that the Emperor never breaks down, that Moltke is all right, and Kameke is up to anything. We civilians are not much good. Something is the matter with us always, fo that when we grow old we are incessantly on the look-out for an opportunity to get away. The eternal wish for repose becomes a sort of ailment, and I, for one, cannot get rid of this ailment, although I have plenty of other sufferings to grumble over. If my career had stopped short of a councillor, I should have left my post long ago. As it is, I am compelled to spend my day in the Wilhelmstrasae, the street of all others that I have hated from my youth. Ido not think I shall ever set foot in the Reichstag again. I see they get on splendidly without me. Why, the Empire* machine is in first-rate working order, and I am so glad there is no quarrelinjßMj just now. If some interminable dispute^^ were going on, and I should have to * grieve and feel angry about it, I do believe it would be all over with me. My present ailment is older than most people think. The doctors have always said there- was not the least danger, but oh, the pain I suffer sometimes ! I assure you I could run up a perpendicular wall when it cornea on. But it only come 9 occasionally ; then it suddenly leaves off aid I iorget all about it, and live in hope that it will never return. Just you tell them in tho Reichstag to do all they can to prevent useless discussions. The Emperor notices everything, and it is our duty to spare him as much as possible. It is true, he is in better health than any of U 9, but he is much older, also, arid he has deserved to experience nothing but what makes him comfoi table and happy. If the greatest Radicals * looked, upon the venerable old man, they would stop in the middle of the moat excited rabble. Wa may consider him a model in all things.

A day or two before the Queen opened the Royal Courts of Justice, two Irishmen were looking at some men stretching a rope accross the Strand from one housetop to another, for the purpose of suspending some flags. '• Shure and what will they be afther doing atttio tops of them houses there ?" said Pat. ° It's a submarine telegraph, they're afther pitting up, I suppose,*' roplied Mio\>