Queen Natalie has registered a considerable success. The perplexed Regency
at last extorted from King Milan his con- sent to a visit from the boy, King Alexander, to his mother. It was paid on Saturday, and began with a solemn little lecture delivered by the King to his mother on her duties as a subject, and his own to his father. The Queen, in return, told him not to talk like that at his age, bade him read books and not newspapers, and finally called him to her side, where he talked—about his sports, let us hope—for an hour or more. Then he returned to the Palace, whither Queen Natalie will not go until her divorce is annulled, or she enters it as Regent. The Ministry, finding the Queen pleased with her son's visit, declared that it should not be repeated unless she promised to quit Servia, to which the Queen replied that she was very sorry, but she should stop where she was. An application will be made to the Skuptschina for a law of expulsion, but the issue of the debate is by no means certain, or whether, if the law were passed, it would be obeyed. The soldiers, who are on the side of the Obrenovitch dynasty, expect a declaration from the Skuptschina in favour of Peter Karageorgevitch, and may act with some promptitude.
