Show FROM BERLIN the following is a dispatch from berlin dated dec 28 prince bismarck is under the weather but is apparently not one of the victims of influenza his condition does not occasion any alarm but he is IF ill III enough to rom ampel I 1 him to give up almost entirely ir a all I 1 efforts to transact official business and to prevent his presence r sence at court new years yearns day MIS his doctors oppose his desire to appear in the reichstag and take part in the debate on the socialist law or military credits or any subjects likely to irritate him in responding to the compliments of the diplomatic reception on new years yearns day the emperor will make a short pacific declaration the presumption being that the royal and lm imperial aerial word on this occasion gives the keynote key note for europe for the year all society is now intensely interested in the coming fancy dress ball which the emperor is to give at the schloss where everyone of the guests must appear in oriental cus cue tume an exceedingly interesting discussion cassion is carried on in private everywhere ery where and not without much beat over the queer proceeding of the emperor in remitting the fine of marks inflicted upon dr bachler editor of the burger Zet tung a conservative sheet which libeled labeled herr singer the socialist and attacked him vigorously because he posed publicly AS A SOCIALIST and a friend of the people while in fact he is at the head of a factory for making cloaks and similar garments in v aich the sweating system is practiced at the expense of many girls employed by him bachler appealed to the court the editor was condemned and paid his fine in au august st this fine was returned by the emperor on monday last such use of the royal prerogative naturally su surprises the people hitherto the exercise of the ther royal gyal clemency has been restricted to state cases for the emperor to thus interfere and step between justice and the accused person in a mere case of private interests is so plain a substitution of royal caprice for the law jaw of the land that everybody can understand it and therefore everybody is profoundly moved by it the journals cannot ignore the subject but they are obliged to touch it with the greatest caution for fear of prosecution liberals Liberal of all ail shades discuss itin it in private however and it is the universal theme nationalists intensely regret the incident as it plays into the hands bands of the and social socialists lAts on the eve of an election with a clear demonstration of a GREAT ABUSE OP OF POWER this incident will confirm the national liberals in their inclination to refuse to vote as it stands the expulsion PU ision clause of the socialist bill this party noy now proposes as a compromise that it will vote for the expulsion aulsion clause if the application of that t at clause be limited to socialists as proven to be engaged in conspiracy against the state and if it shall not apply to a mere advocacy of socialism am in the press or rostrum it is probable that Bl bismarck besmar will accept this compromise and the die immediate political future will take shape from this as a starting point the liberal spirit of the uati national onal liberal party quickened by the bachler incident will make it impossible for that party to yield on this ex expulsion p aulsion clause without this party it cannot be carried prince bismarck will therefore withdraw the bill and dissolve the reichstag AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS with the english government regarding the decree of the provisional government of brazil concerning naturalization has caused prince bismarck to abandon his intention to take any immediate action recent dispatches from rio janeiro have influenced england germany and italy to agree in ignoring the naturalization decree anti and other irregular acts of the revolutionary ary leaders the general convie conviction tion grows here that the new government is merely a military junto which is unstable and will be swept away even before the date to which it has postponed the elections the fear of a republican rising in portugal consequent upon the extension there of the ferment originating in brazil is much less since the character of the movement in rio janeiro has been revealed ad vices received here from lisbon state in fact the republican propaganda has been paralyzed by the despotic doings in rio janeiro and that there is a strong popular reaction in favor of the monarc monarchy by THE EPIDEMIC is rapidly decreasing here but is sp spreading in other places in germany the he malady has very seriously 0 8 1 al affected r th the christmas trade 1 vienna enn d doctors say y the disease has reached its climax there only the prince and princess leopold id of prussia and the duke and duchess duchess of saxe Mein ingin are at potsdam the illness of the princess fedora their only child prevented their attending the family party each one of the emperors five sons had a large christmas tree alldor all for himself placed on a table the tree of the emperor and empress be being ng 0 on n another table 1 in n the ce centre n tre of the hall the emperor passed the greater part of christmas evening assisting in the decoration of trees and frolicking with the children i and left the party to go to the theatre for barrys revival of hamlet 1 I ON CHRISTMAS day the emperor and empress and grand duke and duchess ot baden lined dined with the empress augusta and her family tonight the empress augusta gave f ave a special reception to mr phelps helps united states minister in presence of her full fuji court the empress in the course of a cordial conversation with mr phelps expressed her lifelong life long interest in american affairs and her great desire that the people of the united states should use their immense resources always in the interest of the peace of the world |