The projected meeting of the Emperors came off on Friday
week, on board the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern,' off Dantzic. The meeting was most affectionate, and contrary to expectation, the Czar landed and dined in Dantzic. It is recorded with antis- faclion and wonder that nobody shot at him, an attempt to assassinate being now a regular and anticipated incident in a royal visit. The St. Petersburg papers minimise the import- ance of the event, but it is affirmed. that the Czar will shortly visit the Eniperor of Austria, and that the alliance of the Three Emperors is re-established. That means that they will act together in any question which may arise ; and that, again, signi- fies, of course, that Prince Bismarck is to settle what all three are to do. He has two objects in the East, one good and one bad. One is to efface Turkey, which he dislikes, as that kind of man dislikes dying Powers ; and the other is to push the Hapsburgs as far to the southward as he can, without a Russian war. Perhaps Providence, though not always kind to humanity, will, in this instance, make the Prince successful in his first plan, but not in his second. We can forgive him much for his hint to Count Hatzfeld, recorded in the last Turkish Blue-book by Mr. Goschen, that if Turkey would not give up Thessaly, the European Fleet might convoy 30,000 Greek troops to Constantinople. There is a certain clearness of view about that hint, a comprehension of the relation between means and ends, which, when one is reading of negotiations with the Porte, certainly soothes.
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