NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE weariest Session of the century closes to-day, after achieving one of the greatest and most laborious of legislative feats. The Queen's Assent was given on Monday to the Irish Land Act, and when this Session is remembered, the Irish Land Act will be its sole, though its incomparable fruit. The Land League appear to hope that they can prevent that fruit from being enjoyed and valued as it ought to be in Ireland. And, doubt- less, they can do too much in that direction. Nevertheless, if Mr. Gladstone were to take the bull by the horns,—to go himself to Ireland, and explain to the Irish people, in his own way, what he has achieved for them, we believe that he would be able to beat the Land League on their own ground. That, how- ever, may be impossible ; and even if possible, with these wicked dynamite agitations afoot, it might be dangerous.
