EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1764, 17 July 1888, Page 4

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

Berlin, June 24. It is expected that the resu t of the meeting between the Emperor William and the Emperor Francis Joseph will be an agreement that Austiian authority shall be p«amouut in Servia and Russian Bulgaria. The date of the meeting has not yet been fixed. July 2. Prince Bismarck has stated privately that the Emperor William desires to maintain peuce compatible with the honor and dignity and the interests of the Empire, and that the Emperor, has solic''eJ bis (support to this end, which he has promised. Priuce Bismarck has expressed the opinion that the only causa for European aiuiety is the wscitab lity of the French. He brieves that an imtnodiate change of Ministry in France is not probable. July 5. The Emperor William is expected to visit the Czir of Russia about the middle of this month. He will attend a grand review at Krasu Selo. It is believed that; the Czir is auxioua that an alliance should be entered iuto between Germany, Uubsh, tiii'i England, which would ba a certain guaramea of peice with Europ-. He disclaims any idea of aiming a blow at E<gland's supremacy in India, an! declares that the rumor of an alliance existing between Russia and Fiance is untrue Paris, July 4. Count Paul Vasita, writing in the Fouvelle Revue, stites that Prince Bismarck has assured M. Crisp', the llalhn Premier, that, in iho event of a war in which Geimany proved ViCtorioas, si e wou d not be desiious of adding to her ten itory ; but he believed the d's-ppca-ince of France as a Great Tower would secure peace for m»oy years. Tha writer a'so HSberts that a treaiy lias been concluded with Kng Leopo d by which, in b icli on event, Be gium will leceive French Flanders, Germauy obtanirg un tquivalent in the shape of the Dutch ports ; but he does nit mention what consideration Holland is to obtain.