THE BISMARCKS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 20, 13 February 1891, Page 7

THE BISMARCKS.

(Paris correspondent of Truth.)

Early in this year a member of the Corps Diplomatique, whom I deem sagacious an i watchful of events and men, said to me, " No State in Europe dares now to sir without asking Piinc-p. Bi^nnrck'p leave." He overtops everyb >dy. I thought of this on the different occasion* on which I have had sight of Count Herbert Bismarck since he crossed ovpt here the other day from England. You remember what a tremendous personage he was when he went to visit his friends, the Londonderry, at the Phoenix Park. Tt appears that their friendship is staunch, and that on th« whole he has reason to be satisfied with the civility he met with north of the Channel. His most representative contr>min ihere got away, however, to Paria, not to be called upon by so— as things now stand at Berlin — compromising a personage. Here he is, as Goldsmith described the traveller, " remote, unfriended, melancholy," but I need not repeat a line so well known. It was a huge mistake of the ex-German Chancellor not to be content with leaving Count Herbert a fine fortune and an historical name, instead of trying lo force him into the popition of Bismarck the Second, and to give the Emperor, who i 6 restive as a colt, no option between getting rid of him completely or of having the Connt at his elbow. Whenever le went to visit a brother sovereign, William said that he felt (owing to Herbert Bismarck's constant presence) like a pri=oner allowed to have an outing under the eye of a turnkey who had been sent to watch him. He was exasperated by it. As Count Munster belonged to the late Emperor Frederick's set, it is not surprising that he has not thus far been called upon by Prince Bis-rnarck's eon, who, I believe, has not visited the Embassies here. He goes to the theatres, and liquors or beers up, and sups in a brasserie near the Opera Hous>\ The French papers say that he has come to see whether Prince Lismarck might venture to spend the winter at Nice, without his presence in this country giving rise to ebullitions of anger. They aKo say that the Prince is shaken in health. This is not thecas 1 . Hi" saw-milis, grazing firms, forest plantings, distillenes, and breweries give him plenty to do. He thus escapes from teiium. Bat his wife, poor 1-idy, takes on greatly at his reverse of fortune, and has lost heilth. If they go to tbe Riviera.it will be for the hem fit of her h< alth. I do njt think the French would like t ) see them m Franc . Prince Bismarck's bark in some respects was worsj th-m his bite an 1 his j s'» and gib.'s m 1870-71, were often cruel. But the Pnnees-) exp r ess^d an animosity worthy of a Hebrew worn nil th'tiino when Jewish captains put the inhabitants of ci'ie-i t.) the t iltri- of the swjri, not spann? babes on their mother's br, a-ts. AKrur of hiTi, ixhoitmg hei h isband to exterminate, was -e,/L 1 by fr nc*-*iiuiis on it-, w iv to Versailles, and published by nnmbe'ta'-i mder. ] f h u latter 1 v b->en rakt dup again. Fortunately K:-nnrok di i n >• net upon 't , ..n I, on the whole, he behived well to Pans aft.'i the capital ition, doing what he could to facilitate the entiar.ee i f food ' upphes