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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7525, 27 August 1886, Page 2

THE BULGARIAN EPISODE, The revolution iii Bulgaria lias more the appearance of the action in a drama on tho stage than of actual occurrences! First, Prince Alexander is suddenly arrested in the presence of his troops, and unresistingly allows himself to be removed in custody," Then tho authors of this extraordinary proceeding^ tho. Prince's Ministers, form themselves into a provisional Government, the people nieanwliile, as if to heighten the dramatic effect, appealing on their knees in the streets to the Czar of Rnssid for protection. . The first act in the drama seemed to' close then very satisfactorily for M.M; Zanlioff and Kamveloff and the other of the deposed Prince's Minlstera. They hat\ spirited the Prince away, anil were free to carry out their plans or those of the instigator,, of Hie rebellion,, The second act, however, opens not quite so brightly for them. They had counted probably upon the troops and the people remaining in sympathy with the revolutionary movement; but there comes a reaction of feeling, and the sympathy of both people and military warms in favor of the Prince. To make matters worse there arises one Stambouloff,- who sets up another provisional Government at Tirnora, the former capital of Bulgaria, and having, as we are told, "considerable following," , Stambouloffs Government speedily becomes the stronger of the two ; so strong, indeed, that, as our cable messages of this morning inform us, the Zanhoff-Karaveloff Government is overthrown and the members composing it are arrested, the second act in the drama ending with their downfall and the complete triumph of Stambouloff, who, now master of tlie situation, calls out the militia, and, according to tho lateslt cable message of this morning, proclaims martial law and appoints General MatkurofF to the command of the -army. What will be the nature of the. third act and how the denouement will be worked out remain to be seen. Not the least curious part of the affair is the mystery and uncertainty about the Prince of Bulgaria. "We are told that -he is a prisoner on board a yacht, but we have no information at all as to whether his custodians are Russian, Turkish, Austrian, or Bulgarian. One message states that ho has landed in Bessarabia, a Russian province on the Black Sea ; a later message reports his having landed in Moldavia on the Danube, and having proceeded towards the Austrian frontier ; while the latest merely says that his movements nnd his whereabouts are involved in complete mystery,. And there for the present we must be content to leave this most extraordinary and perplexing episode iv the " Eastern Question."