NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Jspite of all the anxieties of affairs abroad, among wilich the Turkish settlement is conspicuous as involving onb of the most urgent questions of principle which the nation has been required to decide for a long time, public attention has probably been more concentrated upon the Paisley election than upon anything else. Mr. Asquith returns to Parliament
with a decisive majority. He has undoubtedly been elected because of what may be called the correcting tendency of the British electorate. People are dissatisfied with the series of blunders in our foreign policy, with the cavalier manner in which the Government have treated the House of Commons, and perhaps above all with the too ingenious devices by which the Government cover up their tracks and succeed time after time in removing their decisions from the effective judgment of Parliament and the -country.
