NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WE have described elsewhere the seething pot of European diplomacy. The state of the world is like that de- scribed in Byron's Vision of Judgment. We see all Eastern Europe and half Asia reeling like drunken men, and again like the Vision of Judgment we find no consolation when we are bidden
" And for the rest to g'ance Thine eye along America and France."
To this gloomy picture, due partly to the reactions political and economic of the world war but also partly to the reckless and unstable way in which affairs have been handled, we must add Ireland. The stage is not very large, and happily one corner of the Island, and that the most important economically, affords a perfect example of that social stability which a loyal, a determined, and a law-abiding people who know their own minds can always produce. The rest of Ireland is as bad and perhaps a worse seething-pot than any place outside Russia. Murder, violence, and every form of lawlessness possess the land. The so-called Government is almost daily governing leas —apparently under the impression that constitution-mongering in Parliament is " a perfect, substitute" for the administration of the law.
