NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ON Monday, Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville are to make a full and frank confession in the Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament of the condition or the negotiation on the Washington Treaty, and there is little hope that anything pleasant can be -said. The steady drift of the news this week has been unfavour- able to the abandonment of the Indirect Claims by the American Government, —the unfavourable change dating apparently from Mr. .Greeley's nomination by the Liberal Republicans at Cincinnati. It would seem that the most the American Government will do is to instruct its representatives at Geneva cot to urge this part of 'the Case; and this, of course, is not enough for us. If the state- ment of the Government is not considered satisfactory, a debate @oval be taken in both Houses before the Whitsuntide adjourn- ment, which will be postponed for that purpose till next Friday. In case, however, the attitude taken by the Government is regarded as "firm,"—as we quite expect that it will be,—it seems probable that no regular debate will be taken till after the Recess, when the twhole policy of the Government is sure to be sharply reviewed by 'ithe Opposition.
