The young Emperor of Germany intends to govern for himself,
and certainly makes himself felt, especially in the Army, a department in which the Chancellor is powerless, and in which the Emperor is steadily superseding the worn-out men of 1870. The Emperor has, however, no intention of breaking with Prince Bismarck, and has this week expressed his will on that subject in a decided way. The Kreuz Zeitung, speaking for the ultra-Tories, declared on Thursday week that the " Cartel," or combination of parties to support the Prince, ought to dissolve itself, for it limited the Royal authority, which was unendurable. The Official Gazette of Wednes- day, however, contained a communique, palpably written by the Emperor himself, whose peculiar style cannot be mis- taken even in a translation. The /Crew Zeitung is informed that "his Majesty does not permit any party to allow itself to indulge in the pretence of possessing the Imperial ear ;" but he sees in the Cartel "a political coalition suited to the principles of his Government, and is not able to reconcile the means by which the Kreuz Zeitung assails it with respect for his own person, or with our constitutional institutions." The Hohenzollerns, as the Emperor William once said, "were never Junkers," and after that savage rap on the knuckles, that party will probably leave the Chancellor alone for a month at least.
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