The North-German Gazette and the Berlin Post have this week
published articles intended to show that the Russian Government, in fortifying Poland, is endeavouring to con- vince the Russian people that there is danger from Germany. The articles have excited such attention, that they have been followed by others intended to smooth them away ; and they were, perhaps, issued to facilitate the passing of the new Mili- tary Bill, adding 28,000 men to the Army in time of peace, and 60,000 men in time of war. The Provincial Correspondenz is, however, directly official, its utterances have not been smoothed away, and it alleges that the Pansla,vists are moving side-by-side with the Nihilists, and are endeavouring to stir up Russia to a foreign war. The writer's idea evidently is that the Pauslavists caused the war with Turkey, and that they might seize the helm again and cause another with Germany, or rather, in the first instance, with Austria. He forgets that the Panslavists, in 1877, had a lever now wanting, namely,— the brutalities perpetrated in 1877 on the Bulgarians, kinsmen of the Russians in race and religion. The Slays have not the position in Austria to which they are entitled by their numbers, but the Hapsburgs would not reward the destroyer of Batuk. The article, however, is, as we have pointed out elsewhere, a curious index of the inner thought of Prince Bismarck, who is facing not the Russia of the Romanofts, but Russia with the Romanoffs temporarily or permanently superseded.
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