The comparative silence on the Continent continues. The warmer weather
has been most beneficial to the Emperor' Frederick's general health, though, as the world is carefully warned, there is no improvement in the local disease; and while he lives, all action is necessarily suspended. The threatened movements in Servia and Herzegovina have not broken out, and some threats addressed by the Pesther Lloyd to Montenegro for permitting armed bands to cross the frontier, are probably intended only as warnings. The only disquieting intelligence, in fact, during the week is that twelve more Polish regiments have been stationed by the Austrian Government in Galicia, and that the Saxon corps d'armA has been specially told off to aid them in the event of the war extending to Germany. There is still, however, much un- easiness at Vienna, where it is said that this armed peace, and the consequent expenditure and anxiety, are found to be intolerably burdensome. The rumour that Prince Alexander of Battenberg's betrothal to the Princess Victoria of Germany would be formally announced on Thursday, turned out to be an invention.
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