The heavy hand of M. Stambouloff has been lifted from
Bulgaria, and almost everybody is wriggling and swearing aloud. His enemies have persuaded Prince Ferdinand to allow of his arrest on a charge of murder, for which, as yet, there is no evidence earcept "preternatural suspicion" on the part of relatives of the murdered man, M. Beltcheff. There is also a grave scandal about the disappearance of some money voted for the suppression of brigandage, which the Government is supposed to have used for espionage. The accusation is flatly denied; but so violent is feeling in the Chamber, that on December 28th revolvers were drawn, and a Member of the Opposition, M. Dosseff, who persisted in his accusations, was sent to his own house under escort. The Government, alarmed by the fury of its opponents, has proposed a Mil making insult to the Prince or his family a highly penal offence, and altogether there are evidences of disorganisation, if not in the State, at least in opinion. It will be remembered that the Premier, M. Stoiloff, is no favourite of the Prince, who only took him back after his resignation because he could find no tmstworthy successor. The prospect is a sus- pension of the Sobranye and a Princely Dictatorship ; but calculations in Eastern Europe are not worth much.
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