There is great uneasiness in Vienna at the state of
affairs in Servia. The King, it is asserted, tells the Austrian Govern- ment that unless he can carry his Constitution, he shall abdicate in favour of his son with a Conservative Regency. This would be most annoying to Vienna, as the only possible Ministry would be Rassophil ; but there is a still more pressing apprehension. King Milan, who thinks of himself first, and who has no private fortune, may rat to save his throne, and then Servia becomes a Russian outpost. Already, it is stated in the bulletins, he has relinquished his right to make alliances and sign military conventions, and has thus placed the effective control of foreign policy in the hands of his Ministers, who will for the present be Radical and Russian. He may take a further step, and turn Radical himself, thus trumping the cards of his opponents, and especially of Queen Natalie, against whom his hatred becomes almost maniacal. The Austrian statesmen tell the correspondents to say there will be no interference while the crisis is limited to external politics ; but they are evidently uneasy, and by no means so impartial as they represent. King Milan, who is by far the most adroit man in his dominions, has probably not played his last card yet ; but his position may grow in a moment into matter of European concern.
