NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Salisbury Government has resigned. It was under- stood throughout the debate of Tuesday, described below, that the Ministry would treat Mr. Collage's success as a vote of 'No Confidence ;" and on their defeat Sir M. Hicks-Beach proposed an adjournment till Thursday. On that day he announced, in the usual phrase, that the Cabinet had "made a communication" to her Majesty, and it was, of course, known that Lord Salisbury had proceeded to Osborne. It is her Majesty's pleasure at all times of crisis to be as far from London as she can, and all counsellors, old and new, have, therefore, to encounter the Solent in this bitter weather. It was understood on Friday that Mr. Gladstone would be sent for at once, a rumour that the Queen would summon Lord Hartington being regarded as ridiculous. The Queen has always been constitutional, and Mr. Gladstone is the leader of the victorious majority, and must at least be asked to form a Cabinet.
