NEWS OF THE WEEK
LORD SALISBURY is fidgetting with the Fleet " again. It was ordered to Vourla, then delayed ; and now it is to leave Malta on Monday, for some unknown point in Turkish waters. The Channel Fleet, moreover, is under orders to be ready to enter the Mediterranean. Nothing whatever is accurately known of the policy of the Government, but it is believed that Lord Salisbury still insists on a reorganisation of Armenia, under English officials; that the Sultan refuses compliance, and that the Fleet is intended to "make a demonstration" which shall frighten him into submission. It is quite as likely that it will strengthen his enemies till 'another revolution breaks out, the result of which cannot be conjectured. The House of Othman is worn out, but it may 'find a military vizier who will stake everything, the existence of Turkey included, on putting an end to this incessant pres- sure, which, with the want of money, now extreme, makes the Pashas' lives a burden to them, without producing the reforms. 'They do not want their country to be like England or India, any more than they want their heaven to be like a Sunday-school treat.
