Prince Bismarck has really arranged to go to Vienna—it is
be- lieved, on Saturday—for a long conference with Count Andrassy and his successor, Baron Haymerle. It is noted that this journey is settled after the meeting of the German and Russian Emperors ; and that the quarrel between the newspapers of the two countries has recommenced. A kind of communiqué has, however, been published in the official journal of St. Peters- burg, rebuking France for not caring enough for the Russian alliance ; and some observers, notably the Times' corre- spondent in Paris, are convinced that the Triple Alliance
subsists, that the quarrel is a comedy, and that the three Chan- cellors are plotting something considerable. That is con- ceivable, but it is difficult to perceive who is to be hoodwinked, or why, if the three Courts are in accord, Russia should be so ostentatiously left out in the cold. We do not, for reasons stated elsewhere, believe in a war between Germany and Russia; but that something is on foot which Russia strongly dislikes, but can scarcely resist by arms, is the only theory that meets the facts as yet apparent.
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