Throwing Mud at Him.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 3

Throwing Mud at Him.

No case : abuse plaintiffs attorney. Upoo this time honoured principle the Russian press ie beginning to act. The " Moscow Gazette" leads off; the "Journal de St. Petersbourg " follows suit ; the Russophile press all over the Continent, and particularly in France, will endeavour to make the moßt of it. The correct game for these partisans is to maintain that Prince Alexander (of Bulgaria), so far from being the hero of Slivnitza, was its coward. Captain Bendereff is the authority for this statemen 1, and the prominent position occupied by him in the battle, which crushed the hopes of the Servian invaders, Bb.ou.ld be guarantee for its accuracy. But now unfortunately the captain, if he knows how to command the right wing of aa army, can. hardly be regarded as innocent of the intrigues of peace. The ehnrge of cowardice is not now for the first timo brought against Prince Alexander. Jt ia no searet that at bathe, and other places of goesjping autumn reeort upon the Continent this year, there waa much talk of substantially the same accusation. German small talk, especially in military circles, encouraged it, and the character of the matter was eminently suited to idle strolls in Kurgarten and Casino. It is unfortunate that thi" was so ; but German sympathy then was something less than lukewarm in the Bulgarian interest, and any weapon is good enough to brandish behind an enemy in full retreat. At this time of day it is unnecessary to refute the charge. Popular opinion will always outweigh individual scandal ; and popular, which is also the general opinion ot the Bulgarian army, has decided long ago that Prince Alexander was a gallant chief of as gallant a little army as ever fought upon a European battlefield.