Another considerable change has occurred in the personnel of Europe.
Under circumstances described at length else- where, the German Emperor has decided that, as the Chan- cellor, Count Caprivi, and the Prussian Premier, Count Eulenberg, could not agree, both had better send in their resignations. This was accordingly done, and on Monday Prince Hohenlohe, Stadtholder, or as we should say, Viceroy, of the Reichsland—the official name of Alsace-Lorraine—was appointed to both offices. He is a great Catholic noble of seventy-five, unusually rich; has had unusual experience, both of diplomacy and governing; and agrees with the Emperor that the Socialists must be fought both by laws of repression and by measures for raising the general standard of comfort. The Conservatives are delighted at the fall of Count Caprivi, though disappointed at the removal of Count Eulenberg, and they have made submission to the Emperor, who, it is said, hopes to unite them and the Catholic Centre in support of his new Bills. It remains to be seen, however, whether the Conservatives, who are as nearly ruined as our own squires, will remain loyal without some more duties upon articles of food. They are devoted to the Monarchy, they say, but they must have some rent. The change effected by the new appointments is generally treated here as a little coup d'etat dictated by wilfulness, but we have tried to show on another page that it is sensible enough.
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