NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE events of the week are the meeting of the Three Emperors (Germany, Russia, and Austria) at Berlin, and the meeting of the International Society at the Hague,—neither of them, how- ever, events of which the upshot is yet known. The three Em- perors seem to be employed chiefly in visiting and returning visits to each other at the top of their speed,—so fast that they can't possibly have any conversation,—and in reviewing troops. Pro- bably their real business will be conducted by their Ministers, who are all in Berlin,—Prince Bismarck with the Emperor of Germany, Prince Gortschakoff with the Czar, and Count Andrassy with the Emperor of Austria. The Internationalists, on the other hand, have had two secret debates and one open one,—the secret debates referring, as it is said, to the verification of powers on the part of the deputies, and the open one to the decentralisation question,— the abolition of the General Council,—which has not yet been eoncluded. Whatever happens at Berlin, where, no doubt, there -are assembled real centres of power, nothing much will happen at the Hague, where even the leaders quarrel, and appear to be rather centres of weakness.
