NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Bulgarians are not Dutchmen after all. They are clearly losing heart, and the Regents, after releasing the seventy odd officers accused of mutiny and kidnapping, have offered to admit M. Zankoff, the head of the Russian party, into the Regency, or even to allow him to form a Government under them. M. Zankoff has refused, demanding that the Sobranje shall be dissolved, that the Regency shall resign, and that a new Sobranje, called by a Russian Commissary, shall then appoint a Government. It is said that the Sobranje, con- demned to inaction by the necessity of "verifying its powers " —a process which takes a fortnight—is growing excited, and that as soon as it is constituted it will adopt very strong resolutions. Meanwhile, the Russian Government has repeated that, whatever its resolutions may be, they are from the first illegal; has placed Varna under the fire of its gunboats ; and has collected 40,000 men in Odessa and the Southern ports, with steamers sufficient to move them at an hour's notice. General Knnlbars makes demands daily, always under threat of departing ; but there is still some cause of hesitation in Russian counsels. The occupation is not yet ordered, nor have the Regents yet been seized.
