NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SIR Bnlwer Lytton on Tuesday made a bold bid for the Foreign Office. In a speech to the Agricultural Society at Hitchin he contrived to clip and mould Conservative doctrine till it resembled Whig policy as closely as a lay figure resembles life. It only wanted vitality. He declared that his party were interested in the regenera- tion of Italy, but called the Italian Cabinet the Government of Sar- dinia, and thought the annexation of Naples doubtful both in pru- dence and in honour. He watched the constitutional progress of Austria with sympathy, but was not clear whether Austria or Hun- gary was in the right. No true Englishman, he allowed, would exult in American civil war, but then Ile hoped the Union would be broken up into fragments. His colleagues, that is, would regenerate Italy, Medea-fashion, by cutting her into pieces ; and show sympathy with America like an inquisitor, by sentencing the Union to cruel death with a "Vade in pace."
