NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE week that has just passed was predicted as likely to prove "the most critical of the war." As so often happens in cases of political prophecy, the prophets have proved right, but in a perfectly different way from that they had supposed. Though there have been great doings in the western and eastern theatres of the war, nothing has happened which would entitle the past seven days to be regarded as "a turning-point." At home, however, and away from the field, these days have indeed proved the most momentous of the war. To the military crisis has been added a political crisis. The Ministry which began the war, and which has carried it on for ten months, has ceased to exist, and by the time our next issue is in the bands of our readers the formation of a National Government will in all probability have been accomplished.
