Every now avd then there is " week in which nothing occurs in Kurope and there is really nothing in the papers," and such week was that ending on July 18th, When we find the cartoon in Punch such an inanity as a policeman, a grenadier, a mian-of-war's man, a postman, and a couple of mechanics rushing over the edge of what appears to be a ylacior, in pursuit of a will-o'-the-wisp with the lege ty," gain," © insubordination, "agitation," we know that there was nothing of real importance for 'Tenniel to commemorate, nor is there any cartoon at all from Linley Sambourne, Even Mr, Gould, in the Pall Mall, could find nothing better' than Dr. Harcourt standing by the bed of the 'Sick Government," and feeling its pulse, watch in hand, with the legend, "Sinking Past." 'The shadow sketch' of Mr. W. H. Smith as the sic nurse is the best part of it. Politically, the parliamentary situation seems to have been all the papers had to write about. They were all agreed that the government had done very little during the session according to the Conservative papers, the ill-success was due to Radical obstruction aceurding to the Radicals, to Ministerial bungling. None of them' have anything good to' say of the government's course even the Times remarks that "frequent and sudden changes of purpose and of plan have hitherto done them infinite harm. and in no single instance any good whatever." The Dui'y Chronicle, a Unionist paper, said on the 15th of July Yesterday the House of Commons went on wrangling over its nou-contentious business, Very little real progress was male with it, and we fear very little progress will be made till Mr. W. H. Smith gives us his final statement as to the intentions of the Government
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