The Prince of Bulgaria has dissolved his Parliament, and appointed
Bishop Clement Premier, and rumours are current that he may suspend the Constitution. The cause of this step is not accurately known, but it is noteworthy that all the accounts circulated by the pro-Turkish party agree that the Prince is acting on Russian advice, and that the object is to prevent the rise of a popular Ministry, which would. be anti-Russian. If that statement is correct, for which we by no means vouch, it implies this,—that the Bulgarians are anti-Russian, and that Lord Beaconsfield, in preventing the junction of North and South Bulgaria, stopped the formation of a powerful barrier to Russian influence. That is the fact, whatever the meaning of this change of Ministry ; and if Mr. Urquhart were alive, he would denounce Lord Beaconsfield as a Russian Agent, who at the nick of time had weakened Bulgaria, embarrassed India by war beyond her frontiers, and occupied the British Army, when it was wanted to reeist Russia, in a South-African quarrel with a savage.
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