The Austrian Government is apparently under an impression that it
will get nothing from Congress, because Russia and England are agreed. It is, therefore, accumulating troops upon its Eastern frontier, for what purpose is not quite clear. According to the popular account, it is going to fight Russia rather than allow the retrocession of Bessarabia ; but us the House of Haps- burg is not Quixotic, that is not probable. It is more likely that the Emperor is disposed to look strong, in order to secure an effective voice in the arrangements made for Bosnia, Servia, and the navigation of the Danube, and possible that some arrange- ment about Bosnia has already been made. The Government strenuously denies the mobilisation of the Army, but as strenuously refuses to allow any decent concession to Montenegro,—to which, again, the Czar is said to have distinctly promised a port.
