NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IN the Reichstag on Thursday Count von Billow answered a series of questions on foreign affairs, and when in doubt during the course of his speech abused " the foreign " --i.c., the British and American—Press. What seems to have annoyed him most was the suggestion made in the Spectator— Count von Billow did not mention us by name, but the allusion was obvious—that Germany (" whom," said Count von Billow, "I consider to be the most eligible ally in the world ") stands in greater need of an alliance than other countries. But, after all, facts are facts ; and Count von Billow's categorical and absolute denials and assertions cannot alter the feeling entertained towards Germany in France and Russia, efface the general restlessness and anxiety created by Pan-Germanism, or reconcile the people of Poland, of the Danish provinces, and of Alsace-Lorraine. However, we cannot but look with admiration on the adroitness of Count von Billow's speeches. He is a master of Parliamentary finesse, and when that fate overtakes him which has overtaken all who have undertaken to drive the horses of the Kaiser, he Might well set up an Academy of Political Dialectic.
