The meeting of the German and Russian Emperors, to which
a certain importance is attached on the Continent, came off at Kiel on Tuesday. The Sovereigns met, with a great appearance of cordiality, in the harbour on board the German yacht Hohenzollern ;' and then entered Kiel, where, however, the approach of the public was prevented by cordons of troops. They dined together in the Castle, and the Czar was created a German Admiral, after which, without stopping to sleep, Alexander III. returned to Copenhagen. It is not believed that any business was transacted, or that the meeting will have any result, beyond, possibly, the removal of a certain sense of having suffered a slight from the German Emperor's mind. The Russian papers describe the visit as evidence that the situation is peaceful, and that is doubtless correct; but the situation may alter at any moment. We fancy, from the excessive precautions taken at Kiel, that the Czar's fear of assassination, nourished perhaps by an over-zealous police, increases as time goes on. It is admitted now that his reason for not going to Berlin was his dread, not an unreasonable dread, of an explosion under some bridge upon his route.
