King Peter of Servia has evidently an uneasy seat. He
is still in the hands of the Revolutionaries, who have appointed Colonel Maschin Minister of War, and are endeavouring to manipulate the elections. A portion of the Army, however, is growing discontented with the predominant position of the garrison of Belgrade, and an officers' association has been dis- covered pledged to "avenge the murder of King Alexander." Statements, too, have been forwarded from Belgrade to Paris, and published there, in which King Peter is roundly accused of having planned the recent assassinations, a most improbable story. The King, for his part, is awaiting the meeting of the Skupshtina, in which he hopes to find a party that may counterbalance the soldiers ; and meanwhile he lies low, tries to make personal friends, and talks constitutionalism. He is probably maturing some plan for conciliating the peasantry and emancipating himself, but he is evidently not a rash man.
