NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE event of the week has been the arrest of Mr. Parnell under the Coercion Act, technically on the charge of inciting to intimidation, but really, of course, on that of insti- gating resistance to the law. Mr. Gladstone, at Leeds, on Friday week, warned the world that "the resources of civilisation in maintaining the law were not exhausted," and that no force, or fear -of force, would deter the Goverunient from its duty of protecting the well-disposed. On Wednesday the Cabinet sat in council for four hours; and on Thursday morning Mr. Parnell was arrested in his hotel in Dublin, and conveyed to Kilmainham. Suffi- cient military precautions were taken to avoid any sudden rising a.mob, but the arrest was effected by the ordinary police, and no disturbance occurred. The word has been passed from America -that there must be no insurrection, and at present the Land Leaguers are waiting to see what the people think, and an- nouncing only that the Land League will continue, and that its ,object will never be given up. Several more counties have been proclaimed, and rumours are, of course, afloat that more arrests -will be made, and that the Castle will even resort to martial law. There is, however, little doubt that the Government, -whose sole object is to see the law peaceably obeyed, will await the decision of the Irish people. In England and Scotland, the news has been received with universal approval, as indicating
that the law will be sustained. •
