Abstract

The Week

The article presents information on the status of politics and developments from different parts of the world. The Butler financial scheme is not worth discussion, as it has already passed from the public mind, except as a fresh illustration of the uselessness of hoping for the conversion of the debt at a reduced rate of interest as long as members like Butler are sent to Congress by enthusiastic votes of Eastern constituencies, and their wild nonsense on finance is deemed worthy of being reported at full length by the leading papers. Reverdy Johnson, after all, seems likely to come home from England with credit, his fraternization's with unworthy persons, his post prandial oratory, and his difficulties of all kinds about dinners, to the contrary notwithstanding.