Hi liar oj Revii'WS, 1/10/13. 



PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 



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Mr. C. P. Skerrett, K.C., and Sir John 

 Fmdlay, K.C., to the effect that the 

 Legislature having placed the grading 

 and classification of civil servants and 

 adjustment of their salaries in the 

 hands of the Civil Service Commis- 

 sioners, Parliament could not reduce 

 the amounts fixed by the Commis- 

 sioners as remuneration for civil ser- 

 vants, and that the estimates must be 

 based upon the salaries fixed by the 

 Commissioners. The legal advisors to 

 the Government submit, however, that 

 the House could pass or reduce the esti- 

 mates as it pleased. They contend that 

 the estimates are, as their name im- 

 plied, just a guide to Parliament in 

 making the necessary appropriations 

 for the year. The question, though an 

 interesting one, is mainly of academic 

 interest, as Parliament is not likely to 

 interfere with the salaries placed upon 

 the estimates. 



WHAT WILL BULGARIA DO? 



To follow the kaleidoscopic changes 

 in the Balkans, that cockpit of Europe, 

 is well nigh impossible at this distance. 

 Only the barest details reach us of hay. 

 penings there, and the actual policy of 

 Bulgaria, still the chief actor, remains 

 shrouded in mystery. The Peace of 

 Bucharest reft Tsar Ferdinand of all 

 the territory in dispute between the 

 Allies, giving it to Servia and Greece. 

 This was followed by the Treaty of 

 Constantinople, between Bulgaria and 

 Turkey, by which the Sultan regained 

 Adrianople, made good his claim to a 

 frontier along the river Maritza, and 

 obtained further concessions which gave 

 Turkey a northern frontier some miles 

 north of Midia, the stipulated boundary 

 town in the Treaty of London. Rou- 

 mania had also filched some territory 

 from Bulgaria in return for checking 

 the Serbo-Greek advance. 



ROUMANIA IN CONTROL. 



Thus in a few short weeks triumphant 

 Bulgaria was humbled in the dust. 

 The spoils of victory she had won torn 

 from her, her future development 

 crabbed, cabined and confined on every 

 side. It was not to be expected that her 

 statesmen would quietly acquiesce in 

 such humiliating conditions. fhe 



[Speaight Lid. 

 H.II. THE DUCHESS OP FIFE. 

 To Wed Prince Arthur of Cormaught October 15. 



rapid conclusion of Peace with Turkey 

 by giving her what the Allies and the 

 Great Powers had specifically taken 

 away from her, points to some under- 

 standing between the two Governments, 

 and it would not be surprising to find 

 these recent antagonists making com- 

 mon cause against Greece and Servia. 

 If this be so, it looks as if Bulgaria 

 were making a last effort to secure 

 Salonica, as an outlet to the Mediter- 

 ranean. She would not venture to' 

 again make war unless she had ar- 

 ranged matters with Roumania. Once 

 more it is King Charles who, without 

 firing a shot or risking a soldier, con- 

 trols the position. If Roumania's neu- 

 trality has been secured we shall prob- 

 ably sec the dogs of war again let 

 liK >se, and the unhappy lands of Mace- 

 donia and Thrace once more drenched 

 in blood. 



THE REAL SEAT OF TROUBLE. 



Meanwhile, what have the Powers 

 been doing? Apparently they are con- 

 tent il their diplomacy ran keep the 

 conflagration within the boundaries oi 

 the Balkan States They have almost 



