25 JULY 1885, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE news from Russia is insignificant. The rumour is that the difficulties about the Pass of Zulfikar are only raised in order to furnish an excuse for demanding Meruchak,- the fertile southern boundary of the oasis of Penjdeh,—as a set- off against a frank abandonment of Zulfikar. Lord. Randolph Churchill, however, said in the House the other day that no demand for Meruchak had been received, and that he could not -consider so highly hypothetical a case as the one put to him, whether, in any case, Meruchak would be ceded to get full possession of Zulfikar. For our own parts, we should think there could be no worse policy than to show fresh squeezability in order to prevent being squeezed.
