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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

IN discussing the British attitude towards the French invasion of Germany, Parliament was performing one of its principal functions. Here was a question at once intricate and indefinite. There could be no clear-cut decision of do or not do. Rather was it a question of crystallizing by discussion, then balancing by division, different groups of opinion, so that in the end the net result of a national attitude might be attained. In some measure we may feel that the debate achieved this result, and that now, for good or evil, we know some- thing of where the different bodies of opinion in the country, represented in the Commons not travestied in the Press, stand in regard to France.

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