The news from Bucharest has been bad throughout the week.
The Government has dissolved the Chamber, in order that the elections may be free ; but the peasants are not satisfied with this, and have commenced an agrarian war. They demand possession of the land they till. In many districts they have murdered the landlords or their agents, and they have begun to move in crowds upon Bucharest, where, again, the central telegraph-office has been burned down. The Territorial Army, or, as we should say, the Militia, was called out, but refused to act, and it was necessary to summon Regular troops from Moldavia, who, it is hoped, will restore a semblance of order. It is asserted that Russian intrigue is at the bottom of the 6meute, and it appears to be probable that the Russians desire disorder, and are using old and serious agrarian grievances to produce it. Their idea is that with Roumania in anarchy, it will be less difficult to occupy the province when preparations are ripe for interference in Bulgaria. The same game is to be played in Servia also ; but the agrarian question there is believed to be less menacing.
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