NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE whole week in Parliament has been occupied with the Home-rule Bill, and even Mr. Gladstone begins to perceive that it may not get through Committee this Session. The debating is unusually good, and as the points debated al's of the first importance, it is difficult to apply the Closure, and when applied, it produces excessive irritation. The whole House is growing " hot," to Mr. Gladstone's great personal advantage, for anger now stimulates his brain, but to the dis- advantage of progress, which is arrested every night by side- issues. Mr. Mellor, moreover, the new Chairman of Com- mittees, though a just and amiable Judge, has not the deci- sion or the voice necessary to rule an angry mob, and the House becomes an angry mob very often. The unexpected usually arrives, but without the unexpected it is hard to fore- see an end to the Committee on this bill.
