NEWS OF THE WEEK.
PARLIAME NT was prorogued yesterday. The Queen, who was represented by the Lord Chancellor, is made to say that her relations with other Powers continue to be cordial, and that her influence with them will be employed in main- taining the obligaticns enjoined by Treaties, and promoting and consolidating the general peace. She declares that the territorial arrangements "stipulated in the Treaty of Berlin" have been faithfully executed, but says nothing at all about those merely recommended in that Treaty,—the territorial arrangements between Greece and Turkey. She admits that the Ottoman Government has made no reforms, but says he shall continue to urge them. She refers to the deposition of the Khedive, " at the suggestion" of Eng- land and France, as a deposition "rendered necessary by past misgovernment." She refers to the Afghan Treaty as one which re-establishes friendly relations with that State, which gives guarantees for its "peace and safety," and strengthens the frontier of India. She laments the calamities in Zululand, but refers hopefully to the recent successes. And then she reviews very briefly,—witIL necessary brevity,—the legislation of the Session ;.—the Army Discipline Act, the Act for providing a Public Prosecutor, the Banking Act, and the Irish University Act being the only ones referred to. The Speech is brief and modest, not to say a little dreary, in tone ; and when it ends by imploring the blessing of Providence on labours which seem so very fruitless, its ring of piety is quite pathetic.
