The accounts from Eastern Europe remain contradictory. It is affirmed
and reaffirmed that the Emperor of Russia, though enraged with Prince Alexander for promising military aid to the Sultan, still will not actively oppose him, and insists that there must be peace for the present. The Three Emperors, it is stated, have agreed on peace. On the other hand, the negotiations between Servia and Bulgaria scarcely advance a step, and King Milan calls out Reserve after Reserve, so that in a few days he will have 200,000 men under arms. If this is done merely to overawe, it will be a terrible burden on the Servian Treasury ; while if the King expects compensation, where is it to come from ? It looks very much as if some Great Power were secretly desirous of war, yet there is nothing visible in Europe to justify the suspicion. The Emperor of Germany wishes to end his days in peace ; the Emperor of Russia would have gone to war if he had wanted war ; and the Emperor of Austria is hampered by the reluct- ance of his Hungarian subjects to acquire any more Slav sub- jects. Still, Servia arms, and Greece does not disarm.
