NEWS OF THE WEEK.
NEITHER the Berlin Treaty nor the English Convention is pro- ducing much result. The Austrians have been fighting all this week in Bosnia, the Arnauts keep up anarchy in Albania, the Greeks are so clearly preparing for war that Hobart Pasha has been summoned back to the Turkish Fleet, and Servia, according to the Daily News, has called out 40,000 men and accepted a Russian subsidy. Batoum is quiet and prosperous, but the Armenians are emigrating from Erzeroum, and in Constanti- nople rumours of insurrection and massacre are repeated daily. The Sultan cannot bring himself to agree to English interference in Asia Minor, and the Pashas hate the thought of it, unless Eng- land will, by giving them some millions, buy another certainty of being betrayed. They say they cannot secure reforms, not even honest Judges, unless England will pay for them. The Conven- tion therefore falls dead, and the British Ministry begins to threaten an occupation of Asia Minor. At least, the Times of Wednesday points in an " inspired" manner to that course, which would be a possible one if we had another fifty thousand soldiers, or if we could use in Asia Minor the Sikhs whom we shall want for Afghanistan.
