A kind of legal revolution has occurred in Servia. Great
pressure has of late been placed on King Milan to induce him to favour the Russian and break with the Austrian party, and those who exercised it have been energetically supported by the Queen. King Milan, though personally Austrian and inclined to an alliance with Roumania and Bulgaria, has yielded ; and M. Ristics, the most Russophile of Servian politicians, has super- seded M. Garaahinine as Premier. The change has been appa- rently acceptable to the populace, for, whether instigated or not by the Russian Legation, a mob traversed the streets crying, "Down with Austria !" and so insulted M. Garaahinine that he fired on them with a revolver from his balcony. The Austrian papers are furious, and one of them, supposed to be inspired by the Foreign Office," hopes that it will not be necessary to throw anything into the balance in order to maintain those relations with Servia which are required by the simple dictates of expediency." That is a distinct menace, and it must not be forgotten that Austria has always her hand upon the throat of SerMan prosperity. A decree prohibiting the import of pigs into Austria-Hungary makes the peasantry very anti-Russian.
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