NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE event of the week appears to be time receipt in London of 1 a telegram from Livadia, dated November 9th, and signed by M. de Giers, the Under-Secretary in charge of the Department of Foreign Affairs, stating that the Czar intends to adhere strictly to the Treaty of Berlin. Who has been doubting it? Tile message is quoted by the Tory papers with an air of triumph, as if they were cognisant of some mysterious concession which had been extorted from Russia ; but it does not appear to mean any- thing particular, unless it be that the Russian troops will quit the Balkan peninsula on the date specified in the Treaty,—which, of course, if Turkey executes the Treaty, they will do. The Treaty will not be broken, if the South Bulgarians rise in insurrection to demand union with the North Bulgarians, nor if an arrangement is made under which the Powers will enforce the provisions made for the autonomy of East Roumelia, and the advice offered to the Sultan as to cessions to Greece. The extreme suspiciousness displayed by the British Government just now is a sign of weakness, not of strength, as if England were so powerless, that unless she remained constantly watchful, some- thing important would be taken from her.
