NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Mesopotamian Report, which was issued on Tuesday night, is the one topic of the moment. It is the most searching and outspoken Report published during this or any other war, and it shatters many reputations. We have written at length on the subject elsewhere, and here we want to utter only a few words of warning. The publication of the Report will be justified by the use made of it. If it is used as an incitement to a general and pre- occupying hue and cry after scapegoats, the proof will be complete that the public is unfitted to be treated with the frankness it always demands. That would be a deplorable result. Personally, we think the public in its steadiness and good sense a fit recipient for confi- dences, but we confess to being disquieted by the desire of a great many newspapers to have the heads of their particular " black beasts " delivered up on chargers.
