NEWS OF THE WEEK.
rip EIE week has been one of deadly dreariness before the curtain, and
lively excitement behind the scenes. The Opposition, it is stated, nearly made up their minds to make an assault upon the Treasury Bench, but their chief on reviewing his forces found his left wing still disaffected. Some fifty members of his own party considered Lord Palmerston a better Conservative than Mr. Disraeli, and declined to make any effort to unseat him, and the menaces therefore all ended in nothing. The Opposition now assert that they shall await the rising of Conference, and then make their final rush ; but an they have no policy to propose, and are afraid that Mr. Disraeli has one, they will scarcely in the absence of any new incident find the requisite ardour among their rank and file. The Ministry, however, is so weak that it may yet be overthrown by an accident, —a defeat on a point which the Tories forgot to consider a Cabinet question.
