NEWS OF THE WEEK.
HE partridges have still precedence of politics, and lovers of sermons have this week been given up to the guidance of Mr. Newdegate. His theory is that the greatness of England is involved in the family principle, which is partly true, and that the Sparkenhoe Farmers' Club is a family party, which is wholly false. He further- more holds that the cause of the French revolution was the absence of the family bond, which is the exact opposite of all theories hitherto held upon the subject, most men believing that family feeling, as up- held by the aristocracy, was at once the pretext and the reason for that great outbreak. America, too, owed her existing troubles to the same defect, though the Southerners consider themselves patriarchs, and the Yankees are the most respectable of "family men ;" but facts do not signify much in Warwickshire. Mr. Newdegate is an excellent person, but politically he belongs to the quacks, who, because a pill will cure indigestion, declare it will also heal a broken leg. The re- maining speeches of the week have attracted little attention, though Sir H. Verney, at Buckingham, offered some thoughtful remarks on the investment of capital in landed improvements, and Mr. Grant Duff's speech at Elgin is a really clever review of the session.
