NEWS OF THE WEEK.
VERY little of importance in foreign affairs has been recorded during the week, but we note that the corre- spondent of the Times at Teheran, telegraphing to Wednesday's paper, states that the Foreign Minister in the new Cabinet has assured him that matters are "progressing favourably,"—a piece of official optimism on which, we fear, it would be rash to rely too implicitly. The most menacing circumstance, in the words of the Times correspondent, is that the revolu- tionaries now find themselves among the unemployed, and are wanted neither in Persia nor in the places whence they came. Many of them are said to resemble "walking arsenals." They carry "a Manger pistol on the left side, a large Browning revolver in front, and a small Browning revolver on the right. Slung from the shoulders are a large square bomb, a small hand-grenade, and a rifle, and they are cuirassed with cartridges."
