The boy-King of Servia has been anointed, a ceremonial which
is supPosed- to give him a certain guarantee of the loyalty of his subjects. The ceremonial was performed by the Archbishop Itiahael in an ancient and dilapidated church at Kraljevo on July let, and was marked by only one incident. No representative of any Power had been invited; but at the last moment, the Russian Minister, M. Persiani, pleaded a personal order tattend from the Czar, and stood by the King's side throughout the service. That, in the situation, is really remarkable. The Czar is a sincerely pious, not to say superstitious man, and if he intended harm to the Obrenovitch family, would not have allowed so special a sanction to be given to a ceremony which, in the opinion of the Orthodox Church, consecrates their claim. The act may, of course, have been dictated by unreflecting sympathy for the position of King Alexander, a child, a Slav, and a King ; but it is directly at variance with the ideas supposed in the Balkans to have inspired the Czar's recent toast.
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