ABSTRACT
THE war between Turkey and Montenegro had scarcely ended, when another and a far more serious conflict began, which involved the western Po\vers and ended the long period of peace, unbroken, so far as Great Britain was concerned, since the battle of Waterloo. Russia, regarding herself as the special protectress of the Orthodox Church, had intended to make a Turkish refusal to conclude peace with Montenegro a casus belli. But the prompt and vigorous action of Austria and the sudden acceptance of Count I.leiningen's summons by the Porte had removed this ground of cOlnplaint. The Balkan Slavs in general, and the Montenegrins in particular, had in the spring of 1853 no special need of Russian intervention on their behalf.
