The correspondent of the Times at Tirnova announces that the
27th inst. has been fixed for the meeting of the Bulgarian Assembly. The principal business will be to choose a Prince, and he finds that although Prince Dondoukoff-Korsakoff is popular, the idea of the majority is to avoid selecting a Russian. They would prefer a German, and the favourite candidate is Prince Louis of Battenberg, a scion, by a morganatic marriage, of the ruling family of Hesse. Other accounts mention Prince Reuss, the German Ambassador at Constantinople, a man of energy and determination ; and there are at least two "off candidates. One is Prince Charles of Roumania, who is probably out of the question, and another is the Prince of Montenegro, who would be vetoed by Austria, unwisely,—as Bulgaria would thus get the outlet to the Adriatic which she will seek. It is believed that South-Bulgarian delegates will be admitted to the sittings, and that a main element in the choice will be the accept- ability of the Prince proposed to the " Roumelians." It is, of course, intended on all hands that when the present English Government has disappeared, the Bulgarias should be reunited, and a proposal is even mentioned to postpone the election until "East Rounielia " can take an open part in it.
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