NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Czar has at last announced his personal hostility to the Prince of Bulgaria to the whole world. Irritated by his independence, and probably by other causes of which we know nothing, he has passed on him a public humiliation almost without precedent in the annals of European Courts. He has, by decree, deprived him of his honorary colonelcy in the Russian Army, and ordered the regiment which bore his name to resume a simple number. The affront is the more conspicuous, because the Russian Court is not only most punctilious about such matters, but is especially Conservative, never cancelling rank or privilege without the gravest reason. The affront is intended to announce to the world that Russia regards Prince Alexander not only as an enemy, but as an enemy who has forfeited his claims to respect, and whom no Russian can serve. The affront will exasperate all Bulgarians, and make an agreement in the Conference, which is supposed to be sitting at Constantinople, next to impossible. Indeed, according to the latest reports, this Conference is already paralysed by dissensions ; and the smaller Powers, weary of waiting, are determined to act. That is to say, Servia will invade Bulgaria, and Greece will pour her troops into Epirus as "a measure of precaution." The secret intentions of the Great Powers are still veiled ; but the prospects of peace in the Balkans looked on Friday decidedly less secure.
