NEWS OF THE WEEK.
OF foreign affairs there is not much to report this week. The Cretan question still hangs in the balance, but it looks as if before it is finally settled some sharp action will
• have to be taken by the protecting Powers,—action which will remind the Cretans that the peace of Europe is not going to be sacrificed because they are angry and impatient. Mean- time the anti-Greek feeling is, we are sorry to say, rising in Turkey, and a telegram in Friday's Times from Constanti- nople speaks of the boycotting of Greek shipping, commerce, and shops as extending rapidly. This boycott, it is announced, will continue till the Cretan question is settled. The Ottoman • Greeks are suffering in conjunction with the Hellenes, and one Ottoman Greek shipping firm, we are told, is already unable to unload its steamers.
