At the annual festival of the Knights of St. George,
held in St. Petersburg on Thursday, the Emperor of Russia proposed the health of the Emperors of Germany and Austria, in a short speech, in which he said that the ancient alliance between the three Empires " remained intact at the present moment," and believed that it would attain the peaceful end the monarchs had in view. The Archduke Albrecht replied that both monarchs fully and deeply shared the sentiments of the Czar. This is understood to imply that the three intend to press reforms on the Turkish Government, and have postponed " for the present moment " all differences of opinion. Their united views will doubtless be laid before the Sultan, and it is not till the Porte has refused the guarantees required that the differences which exist between the " Imperial Powers" will manifest themselves to the world. Till there is prey in sight, they will remain exquisitely harmonious.
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