Wednesday's papers contain a letter addressed by Mr. Chamberlain to
Mr. Back house in regard to the candidature of Mr. F. Lambton, who is standing in South-East Durham. Mr. Chamberlain says very truly that a party which counts Sir Henry Campbell - Bannerman, Mr. Morley, and Sir William Harcourt among its leaders is not to be trusted in regard to a settlement. "I should myself seriously fear that if, by any cause, they [the Liberal party] were now to return to office, they would be ready to throw away, in connection with the settlement, the position which has been so hardly gained by the sacrifices of the war." Some of the Home-rule news- papers have expressed a great deal of indignation in regard to this statement, but it appears to us to be perfectly sound. It is undoubtedly true that a very large number of Liberals have used language in regard to the war which, if translated into action, would result in a settlement as dangerous to the welfare of the Empire and of South Africa as that which followed Majuba.
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