THE ROUMELIAN REVOLT.

Evening Star, Issue 6725, 6 October 1885, Page 2

THE ROUMELIAN REVOLT.

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] [Reuteb's Telegrams.] THE AMBASSADORS' CONFERENCE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Octobku 5. (Received October 8, 1886.at 1 am.) The Conference of Ambassadors commenced its sittings to-day, and a common decision has been arrived at. A report will be made to be laid before the respective Governments. A SERVIAN WAR VOTE. BELGRADE, October 5. The Skupstina voted the sum by King Milan for increasing the Servian armaments. [' Argus ' Special to Press Association.] LONDON, October 5. (Received Octobor 5,1885, at 1010 p.m.) In consequence of tho Roumelian complication, Serviajhasjraised the standing army to 100,000 men by calling out the first-class reserves. The Czar has favorably received a deputation from Bulgaria. M. Absokoff avers that Austria and Russia have arranged to replace Prince Alexander in tne spring by a Russian vassal, Russia at the same time absorbing Roumelia, and Austria annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina. Prince Alexander will endeavor to forestall this plot, Russia insists on his deposition or compensation in the form of command of the Basphorus. Germany is favorable to Prince Alexander's deposition, while England opposes it. The relations between Austria and Russia (xic) are strained. Recent politics in the Balkan States are as difficult to follow as the record .of civil wars which make up the history of the South American Republics. In both countries the inhabitants seem to be equally unfitted for self-government. Lady Strangford, in the 'Nineteenth Century,' describes the Bulgarian Assembly, created under the constitution drafted for them in 1878, as composed of " needy, greedy, ignorant, and fanatical adventurers. In 1881 Prince Alexander, acting at the instigation of Russia, abrogated the Bulgarian Constitution and effected a coup d'etat. Since then Russia has been playing off the Prince against the patriots, and vice versa ; sometimes advocating the pretensions of Kara Georgevics,' sometimes those of Prince Waldemar, of Denmark, to the supreme rule in Bulgaria. Prince Alexander, standing thus between the Devil and the deep sea, had finally no choice but to leave the country or cast in his lot with the patriots who were clamoring for the union of the two Slav states. The circumstances of the moment make these disturbances less formidable than they would have been two or three years ago. The real Slavonic menace to Europe arose from the fact that Russia threatened to unite Servians, Roumanians, and Bulgarians against Austria-Hungary—an empire which numbers thirteen millions of "orthodox" Slavonie subjects. This was the dream of Aksakoff and the " Moscow party," and it was one of Madame de NovikofFs little jokes "that next after the Sick Man at Constantinople the Sick Woman at ViennaPesth would require burial." -Since 1878, however, matters have altered' somewhat. Roumania and Servia are Austrian rather than Russian in their sympathies, and although there will probably be an attempt from Moscow to make capital for the cause of Pan-Slavism out of the recent events in Eastern Roumelia, the circumstances are not favorable for an attack on Austria, or a profitable anti-Moslem crusade. It seems as if Russia's hand had been forced, and as if the " charge " had exploded prematurely. —'Argus.'