NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE week has been one of unqualified successes, and the news of Paardeberg and Ladysmith has literally sent a thrill of joy and relief round the world. Canada, New Zealand, Australia, India, and every part of the Empire have rejoiced as heartily as Britain, and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the good news has "allied the Tropics and the Pole" in joy and pride. Each country and each city has shown its delight in its own special way. Montreal, for example, has shown a real French joyousness, while Belfast has characteristically celebrated the good news by a riot,—though not one, we are glad to think, which has done any harm, or need be taken to show any essential bitterness among the Irish Roman Catholics. In London as a whole there has been, besides the roaring and the flags, a touch of intensity and self- repression which has been most impressive, but yet a stranger new landed from a month at sea could have read the news in the people's eyes.
