NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ALULL has occurred, as we expected, in the Eastern Question. The Conference has broken up, the Turkish Delegates not even taking the trouble to attend the last sitting, and the Plenipoten- tiaries, though detained for some hours by bad weather, have at last left Constantinople. They had no audience of the Sultan, who pleaded toothache. No further step has been taken, and though of course there are rumours of further negotiations, nothing is certain except that Russia is steadily improving the position of her large army in Bessarabia. She is obliged to wait /or better weather, but the War Office has now collected 200,000 good troops, with sufficient materiel, and is com- pleting the means of transport. It is believed that General Todleben, who defended Sebastopol, will be Commander-in- Chief, and known that orders have been sanctioned—not issued —to call out the third reserve. Meanwhile, rumours are indus- triously spread of the pacific disposition of the Czar, of great difficulties in the way of procuring money, and of the resolution of Servia to make peace for herself. They are all intended to gain the time necessary for the preparation of a crushing blow.
