NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THERE has been a curious lull in politics all through the week. Everybody has been waiting for one of those "melodramatic .catastrophes" which Mr. Disraeli, just after the declaration of war, said would never occur, but the week has been unusually dull. The Russian difficulty is where it was, Paris is quiet, and the German and French hosts in the field are trying to outmanceuvre each other. It is a sort of entr'acte between the scenes of a great tragedy, with the music stopped and the lights half out. The French Government prohibits the transmission of authentic news, and the world is fed with gritty snippets of telegram, usually false, which produce mental indigestion. The lull may last yet another week, for De Keratry is not ready, the Red Prince waits the attack, and D'Aurelles de Paladines,—that seems to be the name, which is written in a dozen ways,—is forming entrenched .camps, so that his defeat shall not mean the collapse of France.
