NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IT appears to be understood on all hands that under cir- cumstances detailed elsewhere, " Europe " has decided on a mixed occupation of Eastern Ronmelia. The Rus- sians are to garrison the northern frontier, the Turks the southern frontier, and the English, Austrians, and Italians the centre. Each of the latter will probably send a division of 3,000 men, who will be carefully kept apart, as a quar- rel among the soldiers might produce new complications. The Sultan has not consented to this scheme, which he thinks contrary to the Treaty of Berlin, as, of course, it is; but he is to be persuaded—that is, compelled—to "respect the decision of Europe." Mr. Chamberlain, on Thursday night, asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the occupation was to be, and whether he would undertake that Parliament should be consulted before it began, but Sir Stafford Northcote was vague upon every point but one. He would give no pledge to consult Parliament,—as, indeed, this Ministry never does. For the rest, nothing was settled, and though her Majesty's Government were ready to consent to the scheme, Turkey wanted to send in her own troops. That, however, would be " a risk which it was desirable to avoid." The meaning of all this is that the Bulgarias must not be publicly united, lest the British electors should find out that the Treaty of Berlin is a failure.
