NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IN the region of foreign affairs the week has been crowded with events of high importance. To the incidents of the war has been added a very serious insurrection in China, an augmentation of the unrest of the world which outbalances the better news that an accord has been reached between the French and German Governments in regard to the Morocco Question, at least as far as Morocco itself is concerned. The details of the compensation to be given to Germany in the Congo remain, however, still unsettled. Again, on the side of peace may perhaps be put the failure of the Royalist rising in Portugal. Fraught with danger as is the situation in Europe caused by the Turkish-Italian war, it may well be that the Chinese conflagration will prove the most far-reaching event of this annus mirabilis. If, as seems quite possible, the insurrection spreads throughout China and is successful in its object, the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty and the establishment of some other form of government—a Chinese Republic seems inconceivable—the consequences are bound to be felt throughout the world.
