NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ALL important re-elections will be over to-day, but Parlia- ment does not meet till Thursday, and even then we may be far from a statement of the Government ideas. There is a rumour, obviously improbable, that Mr. Morley is to travel in Ireland for two months, during which all Irish projects will wait. We question whether Mr. Parnell can grant a long delay without exciting his dangerous allies, the Irish-Americans ; but on Wednesday Mr. Agar-Ellis affirmed positively, in the St. James's Gazette, that an Irish Peer who had accepted high office —Lord Cork ?—had received a note from Mr. Gladstone stating that Home-rule would not come on for six months, and that he might, therefore, accept office for that time. If this is true, the Expropriation Bill will come first ; but we can hardly believe it. Mr. Gladstone has not met his colleagues yet, he is not so indisposed to accept responsible advice as his enemies allege, and the order of the two Bills is of the first importance. The House will never vote the money till it knows what is to become of Ireland.
