NEWS OF THE WEEK.
COUNT VON BULOW has made two important speeches this week on South African affairs. In the first, which we have discussed elsewhere, he defended the Government for disregarding popular opinion in favour of the Boers, declar. ing that "his heart was in his head," and that he looked to German interests and not German sentiment. The peoples were now much more emotional and less wise than the Governments,—a truth, it will be remembered, strongly pressed by Lord Salisbury. The "man in the street" is, in fact, only right by accident in foreign politics. The Govern- ment had, the Count continued, warned Mr. Kruger before the war commenced to be moderate, but when they offer ed mediation Mr. Kruger refused it. After that nothing could be done, for "we could not let our fingers be crushed between the door and its hinges." If they had entered on such a conflict they might have found themselves, like Schiller's youth, deserted by their comrades. M. Delcasse had acted wisely, and he himself should have given Mr. Kruger just the same answer. It would appear from the whole speech that the German Emperor was at one time inclined to interfere, but, finding that he would be alone, took another line, and now thinks, says his Chancellor, that his course "will have no prejudicial effect upon the extent of his African possessions." Is he to get Wallisch Bay P
