This plan, it is rumoured, was finally settled at Ischl,
at which place the Emperors of Germany and Austria met on Thursday, parting, after the interview, on the most cordial terms, The Times, correspondent at Vienna, a very well-informed but very Magyar- esque writer, states that no change whatever in the policy of Austria would arise from what passed at ischl, and he is probably correct. That does not prove, however, that an understanding may not exist among the three Empires, an urgent detail of which was settled at Ischl, and we have elsewhere submitted some reasons for thinking that such an understanding exists. It is earnestly to be hoped that it is so. Russia, as the mandatory of Europe, may yet need assistance—though we see no reason as yet for believing it—and it should be afforded by Austria, which would then be the principal Slav Power, and Germany. Such a combination would be to the interest of Great Britain, which, by the confession of Turkophiles themselves, has chiefly to dread the action of Russia when isolated from Europe.
