We have dealt with the whole question elsewhere, and will
only express here our great satisfaction that the most dangerous and difficult of the problems connected with the crisis in the Balkans has been settled. There seems little doubt that a settlement of the Bulgarian indemnity, under which Turkey will obtain some five or six millions more, will he announced before long. Austria-Hungary should find no difficulty in satisfying Montenegro. How to soothe the wounded feelings of Servia is a much more difficult matter, 11,14 one which we fear will tax the resources of diplomacy to
• utmost. The Cretan question also awaits settlement. In
16eNv of the facts we have just stated, it remains to be seen whether the Powers will think it wise to call a Conference. 140 doubt there are always certain risks connected with the eeting of a Conference, but in spite of this, we trust that r• e Conference will meet, for it seems to us most important ilat the alterations which have been made in the public law of i "stir°1)e. as declared in the Treaty of Berlin, should be ratified the most formal and solemn way possible. It would be 41°4 injurious to the higher interests of Europe should it
become the custom lightly to violate Treaties, een when those Treaties are thirty years old. We do not suggest that Treaties can be everlasting in their obligations, but there might to be a fixed and regular procedure by means of which any State that desires to get a Treaty altered should bring it before a Conference of the Powers concerned.
