NEWS OF THE WEEK.
N0=HG has been reported this week which in the least clears up the prospect as to the continuance of peace. The -reports of outbreaks in Bulgaria are incessant, but they are not verified, and all rumours from Russia must be received with distrust. The Governments of Austria and Hungary are .endeavouring to place the loans rendered necessary by military preparations, and are therefore as peaceful as possible; but the condition of armed watchfulness is in no way altered. It is said that M. GrAvy is anxious for a change of Ministry, in order that General Boulanger may be silently shelved ; but M. Goblet has triumphed in a division on the supplementary estimates, and the Ministry is therefore safe for three weeks,—quite a long time in Paris. The German Government is about to place Alsace-Lorraine under a new regime, much less autonomous than the present; but though the measure will call forth French criticisms, it will pro- duce no other result. There is, in truth, no change of the slightest importance in the situation, the Governments waiting, as they laave done for months, for the final decision of the Czar.
