A very odd little effort has been made in Transylvania
to injure the Russians. A body of Szeklers, a Magyar nationality on the Roumanian frontier, are said to have been bribed with English sovereigns, "supplied by to Members of Parliament,"
to make a raid into Roumania, and cut the Russian line of rail- way. The plot was betrayed to Government, however, and the conspirators, who seem to have been mainly inspired by a tradi- tional dislike of the Roumanians, were disarmed and arrested, with a promptitude inspired by fear lest the Magyars, who are passionately anti-Russian, should join in the movement. The arms were confiscated, and a member of the Hungarian Parlia- ment supposed to be implicated in the plot has been arrested in spite of his inviolability. General Klapka was at first supposed to have organised the attempt, but he has repudiated all coMpli- city in it. It appears to be certain that efforts are being made to induce the Poles to rise and to organise disturbances even in St. Petersburg. As any Polish rising would bring German troops into the field, these attempts can have no serious result.
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