NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ALULL has occurred in the bad weather. For six entire days there has been in South England no gale, no thunderstorm, no heavy rain, and no intimation from New York that American weather is just coming over. It has been possible to cart hay, to reap corn, to travel in Great Britain, and to see the sun, possibilities of which Englishmen had almost begun to despair. Farmers are growing, not indeed cheerful, but at least resigned; landlords cease to expect a revolution; and Tories almost renew their belief in Providence, hitherto this year allied with Mr. Gladstone. The question now is whether such weather can last, and the South Englishman, thrashed by the west wind almost into Charles Kingsley's belief that the east wind is "the wind of God," and taught by the experience of a whole year, is not sanguine. He doubts, as a great physician described the matter last week, whether there is not "a lack of power in the sky to hold up." Let us tr'ttet, at all events, that the weary wet will not be followed, as it was in 1860, by one of the most protracted and severe winters on record, a winter that killed off the old in shoals, and lowered the vitality of the whole people. The absence of warmth, however, even when the sun is visible, is most unusual.
