The Austro-Hungarian Government appears anxious to pick a quarrel with
that of Servia. A Servian sentry, it appears, fired upon an Austrian monitor before Belgrade, and his bullet exploded a shell ; whereupon his comrades, fancying the fire returned, fired again. The Austrian Government demanded redress. The Servian Government made a full apology to that of Vienna, and dismissed the officer who gave the order, and who fancied, or says he fancied, that the monitor ' Maros' had transgressed the limits of the fortress. Prince Wrede, the Austrian agent in Belgrade, being still dissatisfied, the Ristich Ministry resigned, and the Servian Agent in Vienna was summoned to form a Cabinet, but the Austrians still threaten demands for further satisfaction. The accident is almost inexplicable, except by the excited condition of the Hungarian mind.
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