THE BULGARIAN TANGLE. [Atlantic Cable Despatches.]

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 188, 22 January 1887, Page 8

THE BULGARIAN TANGLE. [Atlantic Cable Despatches.]

It Leads to Dissensions in tbe Royal Family of England. The Prince of Wales and fche Dake of Edinburgh vigorously support the candidacy of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe • Coburg Gotha for the throne of Bulgaria.' They are using their personal influence at Berlin and St Petersburg in Ferdinand's favour. Queen Victoria continues to favour Battenburg, and tbe royal family feud is becoming more bitter. The Prince of Walea ignores the presentation of Prince Alexander at Windsor, and has remonstrated with the Queen for advancing Alexander to the rank of the Military Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, a grade to which the Emperor William and the Prince Imperial of Germany belong. Berlin-, December 15.— The public feeling of uneasiness owing ,to the war scare, though without a definite basis, is beginning to visibly affect bueiness and retard enterDrise. It is reliably stated that Ccunt Yon Moltke, at a dinner yesterday, gave it as his opinion that there will be no war while Emperor William lives. St. Peteb^buro, December 15. — The " Official Me?senger " confutes the articles [ ■which recently appeared in theßuesian press ! generally, describing Germany's attitude as j | hostile to Rupeia. The "Messenger" gays j 1 it is to be regretted that the press has been thus deluded. Owing to their mutual and vjfcal interests, the relations between Russia and Germany have become conciliatory. It haa been proved by several trials that both powers rocognfce these relations as important to the welfare of both. Russia formally intends to respect Germany's special interests, and had reason to bo a?sured that Germany will continue to abstain from any action affecting Russia's dignity or interests which have arisen tbrongtj Russia's historic relations with her Eastern co-religionista, Germany's influence will be exclusively directed to maintain that general peace which Europe needs and which the Czar and the Russian people earnestly desire. Turkey's Representative In Bulgaria. The "Tribune's" London cable special of December 13th says : The Vienna correspondent of the "Telegraph" sends this despatch to-Dight: "The proceedings of Gadban Pasha, special delegate of the Sultan at Sophia, are beginning to excite lively indignation, as he is resorting to the same methods as.Kaulbars in order to intimidate the Bulgarian Government, He is communicating angry notes from the Porte almost every day, and is assuming a tone of menace that is becoming intolerable. It is perfectly well known at Constantinople that the candidacy of the Prince of Miogrelia is

considered undesirable by all the Powers except Russia, yet the Grand Vizier is making every effort to compel the Bulgarians to accept him as their ruler." It is alleged in behalf of the Sultan that he is afraid lest the resistance of the Bulgarians to Russia should bring about Russian intervention and perhaps a conflagration ia the Balkan peninsula which would bo fatal to the Turkish empire ; but those who are best informed of affairs At Constantinople declare that the present state of things is the result of the clever diplomacy and far-reaching corruption practised by Russia. Be that as it may, the situation is approaching a climax, and the Porte will not be indefinitely permitted to harass the Bulgarian Government as it is doing jusb now. If the Sultan were a man of wisdom and penetration, he would comprehend what a hopeless position he will find himself in as soon as England turns her back on him. The majority of the Powers' have replied to the Forte's circular asking advice as to the solution of the Bulgarian difficulty. The replies are all either evasive or indefinite. Some of the Powers ack for further explanations and throw no new light on the matter. Iddesleigh, the British Foreign Minister, refers the Porfe to England's views on the Bulgarian situation previously expressed. Italy is little more explict, and alludes to the alleged difficulty the Bulgarians must experience in accepting Nicholas of Mingrelia. It is now thought that the Porte will suggest the solution of the difficulty Italy refers to.