The Czar has been entertaining Count Moltke, and at a
grand dinner given to the Order of St. George made a very important speech. He proposed the health of the Emperor of Germany, the oldest living Knight of the Order, and expressed his hope that the " intimate friendship uniting the two Sovereigns might be perpetuated in future generations, as also the brotherhood-in- arms. In this friendship between the two Armies 1 see the best guarantee for the maintenance of peace and legal order in Europe." The Berliners are naturally delighted with this speech, and think it a sufficient answer to the rumours circulated in France of a com- ing alliance with St. Petersburgh. The policy of Russia depends, however, to a great extent upon the character of her Sovereign, and the Ceasarewitch, though present at the dinner, has not ceased to be anti-German in sentiment. The Vienna correspondent of the Standard is even at the pains to telegraph a report that he struck the Prince of Reuss, the German Ambassador,—an obvious impossibility.
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