NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IRELAND is in as bad a case as ever. In a sense it is worse, because the longer anarchy continues, the more difficult will recovery be. The so-called Peace Conference in Dublin between the Free State representatives and Mr: De Valera met again on Thursday, April 20th, and adjourned after about two hours, having achieved nothing. On the same day the judges of the High Court reassembled for the Easter sittings, but, of course, the Four Courts was occupied by General O'Connor, the chief of the irregular I.R.A., and his garrison. The judges, in these humiliating circumstances, met at the King's Inns, and the Lord Chief Justice established a. King's Bench Court. Last week we referred to what seemed to be the only good sign in Ireland— the rising of popular opinion as expresised in the protest of the Ratepayers' Association against the anarchy imposed on the country by the rival factions of militarists. There have been further signs of the same sort. .
