NEWS OF THE WEEK
TrilRE is still no answer from Constantinople. The meeting f the diplomatists on Wednesday, which was to have been final, was postponed to Thursday, and when it came off, another postponement was decided on till Monday. The Turks show no symptoms of yielding, and the Plenipoten- tiaries, moved, it would seem, by remonstrances from Berlin, have shrunk from making any further concessions. There is a chance, owing to the German intervention, that a final answer may be given next Monday ; but if it be possible to invent any excuse for further delay, the Pashas will doubtless invent it. Opinion is still divided in Constantinople as to the chances of a submission at the eleventh hour, but officials throughout Europe appear to believe that the work of the Conference is at an end, and that the Ambassadors will retire.
