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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE event of the week has been the debate in the House of Lords on Lord Rosebery's Motion. The extraordinary interest and ability of the speeches render it absolutely impossible to give in these columns any adequate account of the discussion. We can only mention very shortly one or two of the speeches. Lord Rosebery's speech, though it lasted for nearly two hours, was never diffuse and never off the point. Its main result was to show the essential need for a Second Chamber, and the importance of strengthening the present House by the introduction of an external elective element, while at the same time preserving its character and traditions through a limited and reformed use of the hereditary principle.

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