NEWS OF THE WEEK.
frIHE Austrian Note to the Turkish Government, submitted by 1 Count Andrassy to the Five Powers and Italy, was considered at the Cabinet Council of Tuesday. It was decided to adhere to the Note in principle, and a communication to that effect was made to the principal London journals. Some considerable reserves accompany the adhesion, but they are pronounced in St. Peters- burg to be of little immediate importance. We have explained elsewhere the great anxiety felt on the Continent as to the line this country would adopt, an anxiety now directed to the action of the Porte. It is not certain yet that the Sultan will agree to accept the Note, his advisers believing that the Powers are not united, while 'nothing is known of the disposition of the insurgents in the Herzegovina. They have recently gained an important success, their leader, Peko, having defeated some Turkish regulars, the Turkish troops are demoralised by cold and hunger, and there are reports of coming disturbances in Albania, Thessaly, and Crete. Should the Porte resist, or the insurgents refuse sub- mission, the provinces will, there is scarcely a doubt, be occupied by Austrian troops.
