Lord Salisbury has refused to receive the two Deputies from
East Roumelia sent over to explain the state of affairs in that Province to the Powers of Europe. He curtly informed them, in reply to their request for an audience, that " the Constitution of East Roumelia having been finally settled by the Inter- national Commission, her Majesty's Government had no further right to interfere iu the affairs of that province." Considering that the British Government is interfering every day, through its representative on the International Commission, which is to govern for another year, this is a mere excuse, and one which will be bitterly resented. The policy of the Government, which has made enemies of the Russians and not conciliated the Turks, seems almost intentionally provocative to the Eastern Christians, who are at least entitled to be heard. M. Waddington heard them. The delegates, in a tem- perate reply, repeat that their countrymen, who have suf- fered most from the Turks—Batuk being in Eastern Rou- melia—have benefited least by the war ; that they will not bear Turkish soldiers among them ; and that they regard their separation from Northern Bulgaria as equivalent to a sentence of death. It is all of no use for the present, for Lord Salisbury says they will be the hap/ ie ;t of pc oples, if only they will submit to the fate prepared for them by the Treaty of Berlin. Is not sauce the final cause of shrimps P
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