Show I ABDICATION OF AXEXANDEII In our dispatches this morning will be fpurid a complete account of the abdication ab-dication of Prince lexanderVof Bulgaria Bulga-ria The principality of Bulgaria is situated sit-uated south of the Danube river and north of the Balkan mountains covering cov-ering an area of 21J3CO English square miles and containing population of about 2000000 The territory out of which this principality was formed originally ori-ginally belonged to Turkey but at the close of the T rkoRussiaa wart which ended in disaster for Turkey the Sultan by the terms of the treaty of St Stefano consented to give up sovereign control of the territory out of which Eastern Uoumania and Bulgara sere subsequently subse-quently organized by theBerlirconfer ence in 1878 Article one of the Treaty of Berlin says Bulgaria shall be constituted con-stituted an autonomous tributary principality under the suzerainty of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan Of Turkey but shall have a Christian government and a national militia Article three of the same treaty says The Prince of Bulgaria shall be freely elected by the population and confirmed con-firmed by the sublime Porte with the consent of the Powers No member of any of the reigning houses of the great European Powers can be elected Prince of Bulgaria In case of a vacancy in the princely dignity the election of the new prince shall take place under the same conditions and with the same forms Under theslt regulations the abdicating prince known in Bulgarian history as Alexander the I was elected under very auspicious circumstances in April 1379 and the June following aesumedthc i government He is a son pf Prince Alexander of Hesse and brother of the impress of Russia He is a young man not yet having seen thirty summers He has served both in the German and Russian armies and the skill and courage e exhibited in snatching victory from the very jaws of defeat in April last when at war with S rna gave evidence th the t-he was possessed of military ability of no mean order Indeed even now his people cknowledge his abilityasa military leader And in rib governments govern-ments proclamation of his abdication it is said He rendered great services on the field of battle but politically he bad too little regard forBuIgarias position asa slave state ancTthe maintenance of relations with Russia This lifts the corner of the curtain of this question and gives us glance at the causes that brought about the abdication abdi-cation of Prince Alexander Of the two millions of population of Bufgaria 70 per cent are Christians members of the Greek Catholic Church 237Dper cent are Mahometans and 072 percent per-cent are Jews Bulgaria therefore there-fore is a r Christian a State and I has never relished the ides of being put under the watchcare of a Mafaommedan i monarch the Sultan of Turkey The peOple of Bulgaria being Christians and Belonging to the same branch of the Clinstian church as the people of Jlus sSa thV Greek theyiiave everfelt like revolting from the imperial im-perial control of the Sultan and seeking seek-ing projection under the powerful pol Ittal winS of Russia Prince Alexander Alexan-der was not favorable to Russian ideas and his elector gave much dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion SoRussla at tbe ttme it occurred The prince and his people then were not icharmony on thr1 great issue and at the demand of the people the prince descended the throne The chief interest in this matter does not centre in Bulgaria itself but arises rom thejact tEKt the state suss created > y thetaaited voices of She great rowers row-ers of Europe who have a voice in confirming the princes that shall be elected to reign which together with the wellknown ambition of Russia to control absolutely in the affairs of Bulgaria Bul-garia and the willingness of the people of Bulgaria to allow her to do so may lead to serious European complications |