NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TN to-day's Spectator we perform an ungrateful -I- but necessary task' the task" of plain-speaking to the Conservative Party and its leaders. No doubt we shall receive the candid friend's usual reward : kicks and curses from one section of the party, tepid syinpathy from another, and only encouragement from that small section of every organization, political and social, which looks ahead and has some share, however small, in the prophetic soul of the wide world—the section which concerns itself with things to come, things which, after all, and whatever people may say, have as much reality as the present or the past. Our first leader, our first review, and the first Lettei to the Editor, all make an effort to deal frankly with some of the rankest evils in the Unionist Party: If those evils are not dealt with, and-promptly, then unques- tionably the remaining days of the Unionist Party can only be short and precarious.
