+ Tho Paris correspondent of Truth says : — " I had a conversation with Skobeleff about Prince Alexander when that warrior waa last m Paris. Said tho hero of Plevna to me : ' He (Battenberg) was m the Balkan campaign, and went through the Shipka Pass. He is Russian to tho core, and a gay, good-looting spark, made for the life of an officer of tho Imperial Guard at St. Petersburg. It was agreed after tho Bulgarias were divided from each other, that he was to bo sent to Bulgaria « simply tho agent of Russia, and he went. Ho gave me, before going, hia word of honour that he would so manage things as to afford Russia a pretext for interfering, and me a fresh theatre for military adventures.' I asked Skobeleff: whether it was true that his mother had intended that he (Skobeleff) was to hare been made Prince of Bulgaria, and whether she was not engaged when she was murdered, m getting up a party to help m carrying out her idea P The General replied that she was too ambitious for him, and that she overrated his abilities. She thought that ho could play a political part— that of a Slav Garibaldi m tho service of the Czar— as well as a military one. But it wap urged against her scheme that it was not m her son'j power to hide his game, and that whether he liked it or not, ho would appear as a menace to Austria and Tnrkey. I somo time ago talked on this subject with Vereschagin, the Russian painter. According to him, Battenberg was, whenever it suited Russia, to furnish a pretext for a Russian intervention, and he had made this arrangement with the privity of Skobe leff. Vereachagln said to tno that Batten berg wroto to Skobeleff to oomo to Bul garia and help him arrange things so that Russia might be able to strike her grand blow with certainty. Tho painter, who had been under the tont »ith tho Gene ral, replied, 'In yi/ur place I should not go. Battenberg is an adventurer, and I should not certainly gild his name by any thing that might look like partnership be tween us.' ' But I promised to go when ever he might call me,' answered poor Skobeleff. 