The Servian Ministry has been reconstituted in consequence -of an
incident of some political importance. It appears that after his abdication, King Milan borrowed £80,000 in St. Petersburg, pledging his word that, in the event of the Czar favouring this loan, he would never return to Servia. When he returned, therefore, the Czar, who hates trickery, was greatly irritated, and showed his feeling in some way which induced the Finance Minister at Belgrade to write a letter to a French friend in St. Petersburg, begging him to remove, if he could, the Czar's displeasure. The letter was of a rather abject kind, but contained a veiled threat that, if the displeasure continued, the young Xing Alexander might turn against Russia, and so diminish her influence "in these countries." The letter was betrayed or stolen, and reached a Radical paper in Belgrade, which published it, and the result was the Finance Minister's dismissal. The importance of the incident consists in the proof it affords that the Czar is not sheltering the Obrenovitch dynasty, and that the King of Servia's advisers think that unless he does, the Radicals may succeed in upsetting the Throne. The Finance Minister, in- deed, writes that if King Milan left Belgrade the Monarchy would be overturned at once. It is known that St. Peters- burg and Vienna are agreed that no war shalt be produced by anything happening in Belgrade, but it is not quite easy when a magazine is on fire, to limit the reach of the explosion.
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