The accounts from Bulgaria are neither clear nor trustworthy. The
leading idea in them is that the Porte has been asked to. inform the Regents that their authority is illegal, and request them to resign. A Commissioner would then be appointed by the Powers who would convoke a new Sobranje, which would elect the Prince of Leuchtenberg, a member of the Beanharnais branch of the reigning house in Russia. The Czar would then proclaim that Bulgaria had made her peace, and the independence of the State, with Russia preponderant in her counsels, would be guaranteed afresh. All that looks a little too neat and theatrical for actual life. The Regents have given no sign, the- existing Sobranje has still to be heard from, and the Turkish Government does not often act with all that decision and effect. If the Powers, were agreed on a Prince, all the rest could be managed more or less easily ; but they are not agreed- yet, and probably will not be till the danger becomes more pressing. The Bulgarians count for little, of course ; but still, their Assembly must act, and with the bitterly anti-Russian feeling now existing in the State, it will not be too willing to- accept a Russian subject as the Prince. St. Petersburg, it is clear, is not certain of the result, for it keeps putting out threats of what the Czar will do if the Sobranje should declare Prince Alexander King.
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