NEWS OF THE WEEK.
PARLIAMENT will probably be prorogued on Tuesday. Supply has been concluded, the Appropriation Bill has been brought in, and the bores and political mischief-makers are beginning to wonder how they shall get through life till their career opens again with the debate on the Queen's Speech in November. In the meantime, the Opposition, and a few of the most melancholic of the Unionists, are giving currency to rumours that the Government have lost heart; that there will be no November Session ; that the Irish Land-Purchase Bill will be abandoned ; and that the Tithe Bill will be made to give place to Free Education, District Councils, and, in short, the pet measures of the Gladstonians. We need hardly say that there is no truth in all these auguries of despair. The Govern- ment will stick to their declarations, and intend to win their battle; and we rather suspect that Mr. Parnell at all events is perfectly aware that, so far as Ireland is -concerned, they will win their battle. The passage of a great measure has become as difficult to effect as the passage of a cannon-ball through earthworks. But the Irish Land Bill will not be defeated again.
