NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Cabinet again met on Friday, and again we can only say that the question of peace and war is officially undecided. It seems, however, almost certain that there will be war, for the Boers during the week's interval placed by the Cabinet between their last dispatch and their ultimatum have shown no signs of making those clear and candid con- cessions which, if made, would have rendered peace a certainty, and would have completely silenced the advocates of war at any price. The Boers, in a word, are rushing on their fate, and nothing short of a miracle can now prevent an outbreak. They are, as the Scotch say, "fey," and the Orange Free State no less than the Transvaal, for the Free 'State Raad has passed a Resolution declaring that "come what may," they will stand by their kinsmen.
