NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE German Elections came off on Thursday, but the results will not be known for another ten days, a great majority of the returns involving the necessity for a second ballot. All that is now certain is that in Berlin the Military Bill has no friends, and that the whole representation of the capital will be either Radical or Social Democrat. The latter party, whose doctrine really is that the physical comfort of the workman is the only object worth a struggle, have added twenty thousand votes to their strength since the last election. Hamburg, Frankfort, Breslau, and probably other cities have gone for the same party, which is expected at least to double its repre- sentation in the Chamber. It must be remembered that the great cities of Germany have always been more or less in opposition, and that the Empire is still governed by country voters whose opinion has not yet been ascertained. There is little -doubt, however, that the next German Parliament will be the most Radical that has ever sat, and that the Emperor has not conciliated working men's opinion. What they dislike they -do not exactly know, but what they want they do know ; and it is a higher rate of wages to be granted now, or, in the case of peasant-freeholders, more profit. We heartily wish they had their desire ; but they will not get it out of legislation.
