NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ACABINET Council was held on Saturday, and on Monday it was officially announced that Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Trevelyan had resigned. They have agreed to postpone all explanations till Thursday next, after Mr. Gladstone has unfolded his plan ; but it is understood that both object to the establishnent of an Irish Parliament in Dublin. The place of Mr. Trevelyan as Secretary for Scotland has been filled by Lord Dalhousie, without a seat in the Cabinet ; and Mr. Stansfeld has accepted the Presidency of the Local Government Board, in lien of Mr. Chamberlain. The Cabinet, as an administrative body, is, of coarse, perceptibly weakened by these changes, and in Mr. Chamberlain it loses a man with considerable following in the country ; but the losses will have comparatively little effect on the impending struggle. Mr. Gladstone is the Government. He will defend his proposal himself, and will succeed or fail by his own strength ; and until Ireland is out of the way, no other internal question can assume importance. It is believed that other resignations are impending, both among Ministers outside the Cabinet and in the Household; but they will not be announced until the plan is formally before Parliament.
