NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE full accounts of Sir Charles Euan-Smith's conduct in Fez, which have been supplied by the correspondent of the Central News, whose letters are as clear and cool-headed as they are graphic, have thrown a great deal of new light on the situation. The whole question we have dealt with at length elsewhere, but we must note here that the correspondent of the Central News, and the leader-writers who have followed him, have not quite done justice to the ability of the Sultan. They represent him as belonging to the weak and easily swayed type of Oriental. The better opinion seems, however, to be opposed to this. The Sultan is a remarkably hand- some man, and is possessed, say very competent and well- informed observers, of a great deal of ability as well as of character. His policy is entirely his own. The latest tele- grams seem to show that the insurrection headed by Ham. maw is spreading. The Angerites are said, indeed, to have got within three miles of Tangier. If this is so, and if they storm the town, the Mission question may be sunk in the much more formidable question of how to protect the Europeans in Tangier without precipitating partition.
