One or two papers, notably the Times, seem exercised about
some effort which Russia is to make against Constantinople with the consent of Germany. It is likely enough that Russia would like to be rid of the Treaty of 1856, but that Germany can ever go heartily with St. Petersburg in the East we are unable to believe. Their interests in the Valley of the Danube are directly
contrary to each other, nor does Germany want Russia in the Mediterranean. That Germany would let Russia take her own course for a time is possible, but England is strong enough to deal with Russia alone, if the Cabinet should decide once more upon entering into that cut de sac, the Eastern question. We -very much doubt if Russia is regarding the wonderful success of Germany with such amiable eyes as she pretends, or if the Czar is blind to such incidents as the refusal of the students of Dorpat to -sing the Imperial Hymn. They sang the " Wacht am Rhein" instead with effusion. The end of the war will leave the Baltic a ,German lake.
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