The German Chancellor will not have it believed that he
is anti-Russsian or pro-Russian upon Bulgarian questions. On Monday, the North German Gazette contained an inspired article declaring that Germany intended to be bound strictly by the Treaty of Berlin, "out of respect for her own signa- ture." Prince Ferdinand of Coburg had broken that Treaty, and was, is fact, the instrument of the Orleans family, who hoped to provoke a European war which, sooner or later, would upset the existing order of things in France. That statement would seem to mean that Russia must not occupy Bulgaria, and that Bulgaria must not elect Prince Ferdinand against the will of the Powers, and that, consequently, the present interregnum in Bulgaria must continue ; but it may mean almost anything else. The allusion to the Orleans family is almost dreamy ; but it is intended, we imagine, to assure the Czar that Germany rather arks) his new enemy, and to inform all Germans that Prince
Bismarck has patriotic reasons for deserting another German Prince. His former desertion of Prince Alexander upon the question of shooting the kidnappers, created an excitement which he does not wish to repeat ; so he pleads that the Coburg Prince is really anti-German.
