PRINCE BISMARCK'S SCHEMES

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1983, 24 March 1885, Page 4

PRINCE BISMARCK'S SCHEMES

THt Cologne Gazette haB published advance sheets of the fourth volume of Pi hate Diplomatic Repot ts, add leased by Prince liismaick, whtn Prussian re piesentathe in Fianklort, to Mmistei yon Manteuffel. These despatchts contain some passages concerning the ich tions of Piussia to Fiance ami .England, which seem just now of especial uiteiest In one bearing date in the year 1807, and written with the object ot overcoming the repugnance of Fredeuck William IV. to the friendly ovei tares of the Empeior Napoleon, Prince Bismaiek dwells upon the great advantages Pi ussia ma}' denve from cultivating closer relations witli France. He says, " Fuendly relations with Louis Napoleon may in themselves be undesirable, but if ultimately we should find it expedient to seek ceitain other intimacies, this will be scarcely possible without the reality or the appeaiance of the friendship of France. ' The Prince then indicates the intimacies he lias in view, and, imong other conntiijs, mentions England, respecting which lie wiites :—": — " England cannot willingly concede to us an industrial development, nor an e^tenMon of our uavy and commercial fleet. But England will begin to iccognise how lmponnnt the alliance of Prussia is so soon as she has reason to fear losing Prussia in favour of France. It we would have the support of England we must begin vv ith Fi auce. On every ground it i^ adv isable not to repulse the advances of France, but, on the contrary, to make ostensibly apparent to all the Cabinets the exis tence of more intimate telations between France and Prussia." In financial circles in Vienna which are in close connection with Berlin it is believed, the correspondent of the " Standard " says, that all the three great questions — Chinese, Congo, and Egyptian — form the subject of negotiations at Berlin between Prince Bismarck, Sir E. Malet, anil M. de Courcel, negotiations which, if successful, will load to a simultaneous settlement. According to these lepotts, the Chancellor shows himself very anxious to extricate the Fiench from the Chinese ditiicul y, which, considering the pioxunity of tlie Fieuch general elections, is a point of interest to Germany also. Prince Bismarck, in fact, would go a very great deal iv order to secuie these elections for the paity at piesent in power, which means rather President Gievy and the .Moderate Republicans that M. Feiry. j He would like not only to secure Ton(jinn for France, but also to benefit the Egyptian bondholder in Fiance by procuring for them an English guarantee for their reduced interest, which would cause an enormous rise in Egyptians. With these two claims on the public the pieaenfc French Cabinet, or their successors of the same shade of politics, could face a general election without fear, a state of things which, according to the reports which the Chancellor receives Lorn France, would not otherwise be the case. English and French interests are so involved that a settlement of the Tonquin difficulty with English assistance would bring round the French to the English demands concerning Eyypt, provided England consents to guarantee the debt, say so long as English troops occupy Egypt. This understanding brought about, the West African Con ference would close without discord, future questions being left to tho luture. It is added that certain Beilin financiers whose connection with Prince Bismarck is generally acknowledged, having quite recently bought large quantities of Egyptians, which they would not do without hopes of a rise, and of an early settlement of the whole question with Prince Bismarck's as3i .tance.

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