NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THOUGH the dispersal of Parliament for its short Easter 1 holiday has left a cooler atmosphere, it is to be feared that no real progress has been made towards a settlement. The Liberal rank-and-file, who, of course, were no parties to the hampering agreement with the Nationalists, are, we are sure, sincerely anxious for a compromise—a compromise under which the Home Rule Bill shall applyonly to that portion of Ireland which desires it, while that portion which desires Exclusion shall be excluded until such time as it may have changed its mind and would prefer to be under a Dublin rather than a Westminster Parliament. That is, we are convinced, the solution which the ordinary Liberal favours, He is not sufficiently versed in political sophistry to think it possible to insist that the will of the local majority shall prevail in the Southend West of Ireland, while treating the demand that the same principle shall apply to the North and East of Ireland as a crime to be put down with troops and battleships.
