SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1886

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 202, 28 August 1886, Page 2

SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1886

The value of Russian protestations of noncomplicity in the recent revolutionary outrage in Bulgaria may be gauged by the fact that the deposed Prince Alexandor ia

now a prisoner at Reni, a Russian town at the junction of tho Pruth and Danube, in tho province of Bessarabia. That he has boon carried thoro by socret orders of Russia nobody for a moment doubts, and tho palpablo object is to make way for tho appointment of a Russian nominco as ruler of tho principality. That part of tho plot which was meant to show all Bulgaria pleading with tears for Russian assistance has evidently miscarried, however, and the Czar's advisers find it necossary to disclaim all connection with tho movoment. This disclaimer, if it moans anything at all, moans that Russian designs aro completely frustrated, and that the only aim is to avoid the humiliation of open diec.miituro and oxposuro iv tho si^ht of tho civilised world. In London it is boliovod that Princo Aioxandcr will bo reinstated ns rulor of Bulgaria and Roumelia, and this appears t'j bo tho best solution of tho difficulty. Whether tho deposed Princo will return to the people who have troatod him so badly is apparently still problematical. Ho is said to have been asked to do so, and to havo declined, and should ho persist in this attitudo, he will only be sorving properly a wretched set of people who by their readiness to follow the lend of political sobem-ora, arG unworthy of f co and enlightened rulo. Thesituation.tliough by no means cleared, ia becoming moro hopoful, and, curiously enough, that lying hypocritical protenco of Russia is tho most promising feature in tho news, in showing i somo slight sonso of shame and defeat.

j A late cable despatch this aftornoon

i stales that Princo Alexander has beon j released, and in a farewell speech to his } escort expressed a hopo that Bulgaria would elect another Priuce. Tho Austrian and Gorman press agroo that tho deposition of the Prince was necessary to tho preservation of good feeling between tho threo Emjiwa.