6 MAY 1843, Page 2

The " Servian question," for the third or fourth time,

is settled ; and Russia, it is said, has forced the Porte to consent to a new election in favour of old Prince MELOSCH. The four other Powers have left the Porte and its protector to fight it out ; and the weaker of course goes to the wall. Turkey is feeble, MEI-mama old and timid, other European Governments are thinking of other things ; and Russia has thus successfully established the right of appointing the Sovereign of Servia, by the indirect method of a veto on all but its nominee. To whom must the new Sovereign of Ser- via hold himself as vassal, Turkey or Russia ? The unwieldly au- tocracy advances like an Irish bog ; and the Ottoman empire, for all its " integrity," melts like salt.