NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE position of the Government has, we are glad to say, greatly improved during the past week. Not only have they exhibited a distinct and most wholesome determination to think of the present, and not to worry about the past ; but the country, by the York election, and the House of Commons, by the majority of 213, have shown that they are more than willing to range themselves behind the Cabinet, and are anxious to make any and every sacrifice so long as they are led. This exhibition of trust and confidence is a splendid proof of the nation's resolve and whole-heartedness, and lays a great responsibility on the Government. After the way in which the nation has supported the Cabinet it can never say, "We might have succeeded if we had dared to ask you for this or that tremendous sacrifice, but we dared not." The mandate of the nation is clear : "Go forward now if it costs us our last drop of blood and our last shilling."
