Frederick Iii. To His People

An extraordinary edition of the Official Gazette contains the following proclamation from Emporor Prederick: To Mv - The emperor has ended his glorous life. In the much-loved father whom I bewail, whom my royal house with me laments in deepest sorrow, the faithful Frussian people' have lost their fnme-crownel king, the Germán nation the iounder of its unity. and the newlyrisoD empire the first Gorman emperor. His illustrous nama will remain inseparately bound up with all the greatness of the Herman fatherland, in whose new creationthe strenuous labor of the Prussian people and princea has met with its most splendid reward. While King William raised the Prussian arrny to the hights of its earnest vocation by never-tiring care, anation's father, be laid asure foundation for the victories which were afterward gained by Germán arms under his leadership and out of which sprang national unity. He thereby secured to the empire a position of power such as up to that time evary Germán heart had yearned for, but had scarcely dared to hope for, and that which he won for his people in honorable death-bringinc; fight, he was destined to strengthan and increase by the long and peaceful toil of his laborous years of government. Safely resting upon his own strength, Germany stands forth esteemed in the council of tbe nations. All the rights and duties which are connected with the crown and my house, and which for the time that, aecording to God's will, may bo allotted me to ruFe, I am resolved to faithfully preserve. Imbued with the greatness of my mission. I shall make it my endeavor to continue the fabric ín the spirit in which in was founded - to make Germany the center of peaoe and to toster her welfare. I am eonvinced that on the basis of the unbreakable bond betweeu the sovereigu and the people. which, Independent of every change in the life of the state, forms the inalterable inheritance of the house of Hohenzollern, rny crown rests henceforward ns securely as it does upon the devotion of the country to the government ot wliich I am now called, and of which I solemnly promise to be a faithful king, both in happiness and in sorrow. May God grant me his blessing and strength to carry out this work, to which my life shall henceforth be devoted. Frbderick. Frederick, in a letter to Prince Bismarck, warmly acknowlodges tho great debt Germany owes him for his services in the past, and concedes that he has the best right to know the emperor's plans fop the future. The emperor then eulogües tie army and navy, and expresseshis inten'ion to maintain them at their preseiu gh grade of strength ani excellence, i e declares for more liberal and general educational facilities, and a still wider range of religious tolerance. The emperor approves the selfgoveining i.owers grauteil the various states, but wants an investigation into their methods of levying taxes, and reforms if nefp'ssary to prevent the imposition of unbearable burdens. The emperor declared that he counted upon Hismarck's wellproved devotion and boundless experience to carry out his plans to win new honors in the domain of pacific development. His closing words were: "Caroless of splendor and glorioua achievement. I shail be content if it can be hereafter sail of my government that it had been beneficial to my people, useful t.q my country and a blessiug to uiy empire."