The Irish Nation publishes a statement, transmitted from Vienna, affirming
that a Treaty exists binding Germany, Austria, England, and Italy to resist Russia if she enters the Balkans. Austria would attack her by land, while the British and Italian fleets held the Black Sea. Turkey, to facilitate operations, would allow the passage of the Dardanelles and Bos- phorus, or, refusing, would be swept out of Europe by the united. Balkan States. Germany would remain quiet, unless Austria were defeated or France moved; but in the former case she would protect Austria, and in the latter would, with Italy, invade France. It has been suggested that the Treaty has been revealed by some Catholic ecclesiastic in Vienna; but it is much more probable that it is the dream of a clever man who has been thinking out the eventualities which would or might follow a determined rush made by the Czar into the Balkans. We suspect that, if that rush occurred, he would be found very nearly right, unless Parliament objected to support that " large portion of Europe" to which Lord Salisbury referred.
