The Week.

The article discusses some recent political developments. With delightful inconsequence the Irish Nationalists have announced at Dublin, Ireland that they have decided to break off all relations with the English liberals, and to inaugurate a grand and harmonious movement for Home Rule. Motions to welcome back some nationalists were voted down by large majorities. Those able but perverse gentlemen have not submitted gracefully to the Irish Parliamentary machine, and so they must remain outside the breastworks. Americans have got out of the habit of thinking of Portugal as a country prone to revolutions. It would almost seem, too, as if King Carlos and his Prime Minister had also forgotten their national history. Otherwise, they could scarcely have expected that their attempt to govern without a Parliament would not provoke such bloody outbreaks as those in Lisbon, Portugal.