The Week.

The article presents information on several socio-political developments from across the world. The new French press bill; which releases journalists from arbitrary punishment at the hands of the minister, and from the necessity of procuring permission to establish papers, but subjects them for all violations of the law to the jurisdiction of the "correctional police"--that is, of the lowest and least respectable branches of the French judiciary--without the intervention of a jury, is a great advance on the old regime, and is the fulfillment of the promise so unexpectedly, made by the Emperor a year ago. In spite of the extreme depression of Russia on the subject of the condition of the Turkish Christians, and the mysterious running to and fro of General S. Ignatieff, the Russian ambassador at Constantinople, and the preparation of breech-loaders for the army, all fear as well as all danger of war in the East seems to be passing away.