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Show ,'. GERMAN POLITICS. Talk of Bismarck's Return to BerUn-The . Triple Alliance, New York, April 8. A Berlin cable to the Times says: Germany has settled set-tled down to rest after its exciting fortnight, fort-night, and Bismarck is pruning his young pines at Fredriehsruhe in profound pro-found peace. The quidnuncs at Berlin aro busy with rumors that he and Count Herbert are to receive seats in the new reiehstag by the resignation of two National Na-tional Liberals, and that they will lead an opposition to the kaiser's new social policy. No doubt this reflects very accurately the desires of the Conservative party, but there is no fear that it will be realized. real-ized. Bismarck has gone away from Berlin for good. He is meditating tho preparation of his voluminous memoirs, to be printed after his death. This work he may or may not execute, but his present intention is certainly to keep out of politics and live quietly on his tir plantation. French and Russian politicians try hard to persuade themselves that with Bismarck's retirement the triple alliance alli-ance has fallen to pieces. If the assertion asser-tion could create facts, then undoubtedly undoubt-edly it would bo tho' case, but for the " present, at least, the triple alliance is rather stronger - oa KiuiG pro-Russian than the kaiser is and far more anxious to preserve the czar's good, will, even at the cost of pocketing affronts and submitting to injustices: William will do neither, and, moreover, he is bound by his great personal friendship friend-ship both to the emperor of Austria and the king of Italy, while he and the czar are not at all well affected toward each other. |