NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TRE Tories are out of temper. They see that the Anglo- Russian " Agreement" published in the Globe, however obtained, has been signed on behalf of both Governments, and that it binds the British Plenipotentiaries not to resist the cession of Batoum and Kars or the retrocession of Bessarabia, and secures nothing to Turkey, except the division of Bulgaria into two provinces, one of which is to be nominally subject to the Sultan. They are not soothed by the concession which it is hinted has been obtained in Asiatic Turkey, and are altogether in a mood to declare that they have been " sold," and to inquire of Lord Beaconsfield, " Where are the thirty pieces of silver ?" The Liberals, on the other hand, are half pleased, half suspicious, pleased that war is averted, and that so many provinces are delivered from the Ottoman, but suspicious of the Premier's inner designs. As we have argued elsewhere,
there is little reason as yet for either chagrin or exultation ; but supposing the agreement final, the Tories can have nothing to say.
Their grand point throughout has been that Government must be trusted, that Parliament had no right to interfere, and that any- body who asked a question was a potential traitor. Personal government, they now see, is very nice when you are the person.
