NEWS OF THE WEEK.
• AS we write at the close of the week there seems to be a
general impression that the situation has suddenly developed in a manner by no means favourable to the Govern- ment. Up till Thursday it looked as though the path of the Ministry were going to prove, if not actually smooth and easy, at any rate practicable. It seemed that the force of circumstances would be recognised as paramount, and that the hot-headed portion of the composite majority on which the Government rests would not ask for the impossible. If, however, we are to believe the rumours of Thursday night, ;the hot-heads have finally decided that they will not face the facts of the situation, but will insist on crying for the moon, and when they cannot get it, will compel the Government to resign, with the almost inevitable result of an immediate Dissolution.
