The independence of Roumania was decreed on May 21 in
the Senate and Chamber of Deputies by a nearly unanimous vote, and declared by Prince Charles on the 23rd, in a speech in which he expressed his confidence that the Great Powers would agree. Russia, it is safd, has already accepted the change ; and Austria, which was supposed to be most hostile, has evidently agreed to consider the announcement unimportant. Germany will not long delay recognition, and though England and France will be more tardy, they have no interest in a useless opposition. Indeed, as we have endeavoured to show elsewhere, their interest is in an independence which will diminish the temptation now felt at Bucharest to rely exclusively on Russia. That Power has now nothing to offer but additions of territory, which, so far as they strengthen Roumania and weaken Turkey, must be acceptable to Europe.
