The Times of Wednesday prints a long telegram from its.
Berlin correspondent describing a movement which is taking place in Germany for the creation of a new party, to be called the National Party, the main object of which will be to get rid of Count Caprivi. The Chancellor is to be attacked on his commercial, his Colonial, and his military policy. The commercial policy is to be denounced "for having transferred to Vienna Germany's economic centre of stability; the Colonial policy for having opened access to British influence and British capital in the development of Germany's Colonies ; the military policy for imposing on the country burdens which the present depression of trade and industry renders absolutely intolerable, and which a more statesmanlike handling of diplomacy should have rendered unnecessary.' Anti-Semitism and bimetallism are also to be added to its programme. In a word, the party is to be a party of malcon- tents recruited from all quarters. The active promoters of the party are, however, none of them well-known men, and the incognito of the wirepullers behind has not yet been abandoned. How far Prince Bismarck is concerned in the movement is not stated ; but a malcontent party with the chief malcontent left out, would, indeed, be Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark omitted.
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