A new party is said to be forming itself in
Germany,. whioh 18 expected greatly to influence politics. The squires, farmers, and small freeholders, especially in Prussia, are greatly irri- tated by the low prices, which they ascribe to the new Treaties framed during General Caprivi's Administration. They met, therefore, on Saturday in Berlin, to the number of four thousand, and founded an Agrarian League, which is to refuse support to any candidates not pledged to rigid Pro- tectionism, to the rejection of commercial treaties, and to the reduction of taxes payable by agriculture. The League Is also understood to demand the dismissal of Count C. aprivi, and to subordinate all political interests to the Interests of agriculture. The League is receiving adhesions from all parts of
the Empire the Peasants' League with
forty thousand niembers has merged itself in it, and the Anti- S. emite Associations offer it their alliance. So powerful is it, indeed, that on Wednesday the Emperor made a speech in which he professed his devotion to agriculture, hinted that it could only be benefited by a complicated and arduous " policy &mending much time," and adjured his audience to remain loyal. The new party is the stronger, because it includes most of the Conservatives, who are loyalists before everything ; and who, on great occasions, vote always with the Royal or Imperial Government. Their revolt, or even their abstention, would leave the Liberals masters of the situation. They will hardly go quite so far, but they will undoubtedly try to make
bargains, and their annoyance constitutes a new difficulty for the Imperial Government, impeding, for instance, the new commercial treaty with Russia, now in course of arrangement.
