There is only one change in the situation in Eastern
Europe, but that is very marked. The Government of Sofia perceives, from indications not perceptible in the West, that the storm is approaching nearer, and, becomes much more determined, not to say desperate. Major Popoff, for in- stance, Commandant of Sofia, has been sentenced to penal servitude, nominally for peculation, really, we fear—though he may have been guilty—for opposing the Premier, M. Stambouloff. The Primate, Monsignor Clement, a deter- mined friend of Russia, has been, by an unusual stretch of authority, deposed and banished; and on Easter Sunday (0.8.), Prince Ferdinand made a speech at Tirtiovo in which he declared that he had given up everything to be Prince in Bulgaria, and that the Bulgarian ideal was his own, and "Bulgarian independence a sacred aim." An effort of the Turkish Government to levy duties on the frontier of Eastern Roumelia has been met by a differential tariff against Turkish goods, and altogether it looks as if Bul- garians saw that the supreme hour was drawing near, and intended to place themselves in the only logical position as an independent nation not bound by any treaties to which they have not consented. That decision, if they adhere to it, is fatal to the Treaty of Berlin, and must produce an &bloat immediate resort to arms.
