Central Europe is all astir. The Czar of Russia has
suddenly announced an intention to visit his great-uncle, the Emperor of Germany, and in Berlin and Vienna nothing else is spoken of. The visit is attributed to political motives, and delights the Berliners, while it disgusts the Viennese. The former expect a renewal of the old alliance, and so do the latter ; but Berlin thinks this will make Germany stronger, while Vieuua believes it will make Austria weaker. Nothing is known of the object of the visit, which, for reasons explained elsewhere, is probably political, and takes place under circumstances of almost pathetic strangeness. The Czar travels to Germany by sea, preferring sea- sickness to dynamite, and the interview will, it is believed, take place to-day on the German Emperor's yacht, the 'Hohenzollern,' where both Sovereigns can feel safe. The original rendezvous was Dantzic, but so extreme is now the danger or the alarm of the Kings, that the moment this was known the locality was denied, lest Nihilists or Socialists should seize such an oppor- tunity. Was there ever such a satire on human greatness ?' The two most powerful men on earth, who, with a month's notice, could put a million of trained soldiers in motion, meet for a chat at sea, because, though they are absolute from the mouth of the Elbe to the mouth of the Volga, they cannot within that vast expanse find a safe place iu which to sit !
