The quarrel between Roumania and Bulgaria becomes more and more
envenomed. Two of the Bulgarians under trial for murdering a Professor in Bucharest now confess that the President of the Macedonian Committee in Sofia gave them distinct orders to kill King Charles of Roumania, and as Bulgaria will not prosecute this person, the Roumanian newspapers threaten war. The Bulgarian news- papers are not slow to respond, and each State appears to be as confident in its strength as in its cause. The Times correspondent believes, we see, that if war were declared all the Balkan States would join in it, and there. fore thinks that the Great Powers will prevent such a calamity. They may, but it is not certain. A good many Continental politicians believe that war in a cockpit, with Russia and Austria to keep the ring, would cure the hot blood of these little States and teach them to obey orders. At all events the people are raging, and an accident may com- pel their Princes to fight. The best hope is in the shrewdness of Prince Ferdinand, whose one ambition is to obtain the "closed crown," and who knows that he will never get it by his soldiership.
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