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Show Bismarck aud Ills Polish Policy. Beblin, February 2. The Polish policy of Prince Bismarck, as announced in the Landtag, Land-tag, has produced a general excitement throughout Germany and Austria. The immense im-mense Lubrinski estate, containing about 2C3 000 acres, one of the largest estates in Prussia, is offered for sale next April, as the result of Uie expulsion of the Poles. The inhabitants of the estate have for years been mainly Poles, and the edict of expulsion by forcibly removing the tenantry and depriving depriv-ing the estate of its revenues, has thrown it upon the market. Prince. Bismarck's announced policy of F"f Crown all real estate- owned by the Polish nobles and gentry in Prussia for resale to German colonists, is opportune for the proprietors pro-prietors of the Lubrinski lands, for at any ordinary sale the property must have gone at bankrupt prices. Bismarck does not intend in-tend to take advantage of the expulsions to buy the land in Posen cheap, but means to pay fairly for it, and his Landtag declarations declara-tions have in fact served to keep up the values by reassuring the market. Addresses of sympathy have been sent to Bismarck by Germans in every part of the empire and many have already reached him from people in Austria, and especially from Bohemia. The National Club of the Austrian Reich-stath Reich-stath headed by . the . German National Deputy, Herr Knotz, has also signed a similar memorial of congratulations. The Austrian-German Austrian-German Club of Vienna, however, have unanimously denounced the German Chancellor's Chan-cellor's treatment of the Poles. Vienna, February 2. It is rumored here that two Polish members, of the Austrian cabinet intend to resign their portfolios for the reason that if they remain in office they are .certain to be strongly pressed by the Polish depnties to induce Austria to formally for-mally protest against Prince Bismarck's action against the Poles of Posen. ' ..".Beblin, February 2.-rIt; is rumored that an influential deputation of Catholics from .Prussian Poland .wili.xisit thePjQpe 4 or ,the, purpose ot consulting with him in regard to the proposed Germanism of Poland. |