NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THERE have been cornyrumours of petite proposals during the week, all traceable, as might be supposed, to Germany. We would warn our readers to pay little attention to these rumours. Rumours which hove an obvious motive sink in value even below the disinterested babble of the bazaar. The hand of Herr von Kuhlmann, the German Foreign Secretory, is evident in the fabrica- tion that Great Britain hod made on offer of peace. The British Government have thought it worth while to deny this absurd. statement. Most of the rumours hove been concerned with Belgium, and one of the more interesting questions of the moment, though it is not in any degree important, is whether a proposal by Ger- many to surrenderBelgium will appear in the answer of the Central Powers to the Pope.
