The Times publishes the text of the convention between Great
Britain and France ; but the ipsissima verba add nothing to the information al- ready before the public.
It has been officially announced at Vienna, that the Austro-Prussian sonvention was signed at Berlin on Thursday. " It is said that Prussia thereby pledges herself to cover with 120,000 men the movements of the Austrian forces in the South and East."
According to a paragraph in the Times, the Chevalier Bunsen "has conveyed to the King of Prussia his determination not to remain in the service of his Majesty on any ambiguous terms, or as the instrument of a policy at variance alike with the true interests of Germany and of the Western Powers. He has, therefore, replied to the clandestine efforts to obtain his recall, by placing his resignation in the hands of the King, and by requesting to be relieved from the performance of duties which are neither consistent with his political opinions nor with the firm alliance between Prussia and this countiy."
The Emperor of Austria is playing the lover : he left Vienna yester- day, on a flying visit to his betrothed at Linz, and was to return today to receive her. The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Vienna on Thursday.
Some attention is just now due to the robber state of Montenegro. It is certain that "the Yladika has issued a proclamation, calling the Mon- tenegrins to arms against Turkey in behalf of their coreligionists" ; while "Austria energetically protests against any movement in Monte- negro, and the export of arms from Austria to Montenegro is prohibited." The Russian ships purchased at Trieste by the Greeks have been ordered by the Greek Consul to remain in port. He is said to anticipate a block- ade of Greece by the Allies. Telegraphic despatches state that "the Os- servatore Triestino, which is generally well-informed on such matters, says that the Police have discovered a Greek conspiracy at Constantinople for attacking the Turks and Franks during the Easter holidays ; that Lord Stratford de Itedcliffe has received several menacing anonymous letters ; and that the military posts have been tripled in Pent and Ga- lata."
Much has been made by some of our contemporaries of despatches by Omar Pasha from Schumla, said to announce "three grand vic- tories of the Turks on the Danube" : but the despatches in question merely state that the Russians had crossed the Danube in superior force, though not without resistance ; that the Turkish troops, as ordered, had fallen back to Karasu; and that the commander-in-chief ordered Mus- tapha Pasha to abandon that position and retire upon Schumla. " Si- milar instructions have also been transmitted to other points of our lines, so as to concentrate here as much as possible our available strength, and meet the enemy ere long in a pitched battle."
The Vienna Prase of yesterday publishes a doubtful report of "a great battle" in the Dobrudscha, in which the Russians are made to lose 3000 men and the Turks exactly half that number ; Turks victorious. The combined fleets are said to have operated on the left flank of the Rus-
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