NEWS OF THE WEEK.
HE sensation of the week has been the publication by the Morn-
ingg Star of a list of names of supposed subscribers to the Con- federate Cotton Loan, including Mr. Gladstone's name for 2,0001., that of Mr. J. T. Delano, the editor of the limes, for 10,0001., and of Mr. Sampson, the City editor of the same paper, for 15,0001., Mr. Beresford Hope's for 40,0001., and others with them. The list turns out to be a pure forgery, which has been palmed, however, on the Federal Government, probably by some Confederate willing to earn a reward and annoy Mr. Seward by one and the same process, and in the authen- ticity of which, as we happen to know, the Federal Secre- tary of State sincerely believed. The contradictions of all the more weighty of the supposed subscribers have been received, —most of them contradictions which upset even the theory of its being founded on fact. Mr. Delane, for instance, denies that he ever had a farthing in the Confederate loan in any shape, and so does Mr. Beresford Hope. We are very glad to receive these contradictions to imputations which should not have been, even hypothetically, made, without better evidence than that of the New York Herald, or some Confederate dealer in stock. In spite of the elaborate arguments of some of our contemporaries to the contrary, no man likes to receive political any more than any other kind of advice from a person deeply biassed by self- interest. And either a statesman or an editor who tenders that advice, while concealing a fact that would so greatly diminish its weight, is untrue to his highest intellectual obligations.
