NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE event of the week has been the publication in the Standard of the draft Redistribution Bill, prepared by the Ministerial Committee selected for the duty, and intended for submission to the Cabinet. Twenty-five copies of the draft were printed, and, according to a statement in the Telegraph, some one in Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode's establishment offered to provide that journal with a copy. Its managers refused the offer, and communicated it to the printers as evidence that they were betrayed. Whether the offer was repeated to the Standard is not known, but the document appeared there ; and it is obviously from internal evidence an important one. Lord Hartington, Sir Charles Dilke, Sir H. James, and Mr. Shaw-Lefevre were on the Committee; and as Mr. Glad- stone's views were well known to them, it may be taken as certain that the proposal they framed, which is of the most detailed kind, would have been at least the basis of the measure to be ultimately brought forward. As such it deserves discussion, and will unquestionably receive it, though as yet the London morning papers, perhaps from virtue, conceivably from jealousy, abstain from noticing it
