The Memorial Diplomatique published last week a long article -affirming
that France and England.are effaced, and that Germany, Russia, and Austria are preparing a new solution of the Turkish, or rather Eastern question. They will allow the Christian provinces to throw off their allegiance to the Sultan, Roumania and Servia being the first, and Bulgaria the next to rise in insurrection. The Turkish Empire is to be finally given up as incurable, and to be dealt with according to circumstances. The Memorial Diplomatigue ondescends to no details, but the theory on the Continent seems to be that Germany is to have another bit of Poland, that Austria is to have Servia, that the Principalities are to be neutralised, and that Russia is to have the coast road,—the long strip of Bulgaria which runs up to Bessarabia. In other words, Russia is to hold the mouths of the Danube, and her land road to Constantinople is to be open. It is a very nice plan, but as it would burden Germany with more Poles, Austria with more Sclaves, and Russia with the determined hostility of Great Britain, it will probably not be carried out just yet. That something is up in the Eastern question is probably true, as Count Arnim is to go to Constantinople, but scarcely an alliance between irrecon- cilable interests.
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