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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

WE have dealt at length elsewhere with the grave

situation calmed by the " murder "—the phrase is Sir Edward Grey's—of Mr. Benton by or by the orders of, General Villa, who, it is said, is still regarded by President Wilson as likely to prove "a useful means of dislodging President }Lucite." The news published on Friday shows that General Villa is not in the least ashamed of what be has done, and is treating both the American and British authorities with insolent indifference. He is said to have promised exhumation, but it is believed that he will not allow it to take place till the body is too much decomposed for it to be possible to say how Mr. Benton was killed.

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