Show OUR EUROPEAN y LETTER points of froin across alio atlantic from oar looking to the still unsettled stalo of more han ono momentous momen toua european question it is but nature anat considerable ghoulie ghou lil bo attached cd to tho great conferences which havo recently taken nt fi ermany between irinco bismarck and count andr succeeding as alicy do after so brie an interval tho interviews held in alio bamo place by tho german and austrian empo confidential ot winch h reported lo 10 have lasted civo hours and ft liala may fairly be regarded as significant of future closeness and cordiality in the relations that have for somo years past subsisted between abo two great empires of central europe it seems highly probable eliat an intimate mutual understanding virtually equivalent to nil alliance may have been arrived at by william and francis joseph who are not only connected by fam ily ties but by the bonds ofin cro personal lovo and esteem atit may well be eliat the details otlee austro german pro grammo mon action to be elected in case certain potential contingencies should actually in the future leavo been fully discussed and indefinitely settled by the german chancellor and the austro premier durina their protracted tele a teles in bastein Ua stein an german alliance has intrinsic advantages strongly recommending it to the and of both the empires immediately concerned and it presents no cause for alarm or dissatisfaction to the rest of civilized europe the compact if attained is noth kely lo 10 bo greeted with wl come or approval by Russi aio whose aggressive projects it would oppose an insurmountable barrier bu that circumstance would only cn hanco our appreciation of its value as a guarantee of peace order and progress to the culture loving people of alie old world tho retirement of william the eldest son of the german crown prince and her Maje eldest grandson from the university of boers was on the occasion of a students on a grand scale in which the native population joined with much spirit so far as the decoration of public and private buildings and attendance as spectators in windows and on balconies were concerned A procession was formed on the alte zoll headed by the band of the em derors own hussary hussars Hus sars who had donned the regimental dress of the historic dragoons of bayreuth for the occasion students on horseback followed bearing the colors and wearing the uniforms of tho three principal corps the in violet and red tho prussians in black white and blacic and the llau seats in while and scarlet A file of open carriages drawn by four horses eacle followed the occupied tho principal seit in the first carriage and wore alip colors of the prussian corps tho having enado the tour of tho town the gentlemen young and old who had taken part in it assembled for a commers in which ifera alexander de clair a brother of count Molt kott lido do camp presided toasts were drank with all honor by the salamander of german indents tv tha emperor alio imperial family and the prince the prince who had completed his fifth term at the university replied with perfect self command he said gentlemen I chank you first of all for the salamander you leave so heartily drank to the health of my grandfather and then of me and I cannot but express the deep pain I feel at the thought of having to leave your joyful ranks so soon I thank you for having received me as n corps student I leavo learnt to know ho spirit animating the fighting clubs as well at their duel grounds as in their social gatherings it is a good and right honest german mood and I will remain to tho spirit of this corps till tho end of my life the academic in his address remarked that prince willaam Will tam during his stay at the university had become great tho young prince will now commence his travels and afterwards enter the ast 1st foot guard the result of an inquiry instituted by a committee appointed by tho prussian into prison labor and its influence upon free labor has just been published daf agates from chambers of commerce took part in this inquiry and after holding a number ot sittings during several months the committee arrived at the conclusion to limit the work of prisoners to articles which not interfere with free labor all eliat ho state can do in tho opinion of alio committee being to or ganie irison labor in such away as to mid the competition with ordinary trades chambers of commerce having represented that alio wages paid for prison labor were very ow the committee state that al hough they are nominally lower than those given to ordinary artisans heya roin reality as high consider ng the quality of the work done in the counse of tho inquiry statistics were produced relating to the maun lecturing lac turing trade of prussia tho number of persons employed in those trades being and in lareo manufactories manu factories or nearly tareo and a half millions altogether at the end of december last there were persons undergoing imprisonment with hard labor this being equivalent to one prison work man to every free laborers trado in which there is tho greatest competition between prison and free labor 11 that of there being 2459 prison erit engaged in it as against men outside tin reason bring that is a work which elderly and weakly per on can perform and upon which as t does not require a long apprenticeship tice ship prisoners sentenced for short terms can bo employed louis germany sept 21 au t |