NEWS OF THE_ WEEK.
THE opening of Parliament on Tuesday was more than a repetition of that stately routine by which the world's first deliberative assembly settles to the work of each Session. It was rather a world event whose reactions and repercussions must be felt in either hemi- sphere. England became again articulate. Parliament was summoned by the King to come back not only to Westminster but to its positiOn as the supreme authority of the Empire. For the last four years we have been governed by the personal power of one man. Parliament has now taken back its subtly lost preroga- tives. By that very act it has recovered' most of its lost prestige. It now depends solely on its own exertions whether it can retain that hold on. the imagination and intelligence of thepeople that in the last resort can alone • . enable it to rule as well 'as to reign.
