The Austrian Government has suffered another severe blow in the
Balkan. The Servian Ministry, presided over by M. Pirotchanatz, which is pro-Austrian, was considered so safe that King Milano went holiday-making to Vienna, and sought an audience of the Emperor of Germany at Homburg. The elections, however, were held in his absence, and resulted in so large a majority for the Radicals, who are Russian, or rather Slav, in sympathy, that the Ministry, even with the aid of the nominee third of the House, can only hope for a tie. The King has hurried back from his tour, M. Pirotchanatz will, it is assumed, resign, and the wildest reports are current. The King will, it is said, be deposed in favour of Prince Karageorgevitch, and another member of that family will be elected Prince of Bulgaria and Hospodar of East Itoumelia. These are dreams, mostly. The Servians want a more Liberal Constitution, a little less subserviency to Austria, and an honest inquiry into the financial jobberies, some of them most discreditable, which produce their chronic deficit. If King Milano grants their demands, there will be no revolution; and if he does not, there will be many combinations tried before either Austria or Russia is invited to interfere. The Servians, like the Bulgarians, want to cook their own dinners at their own fires.
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