The Government have evidently decided to carry on the Coalition
and to proceed to a General Election as soon as may be. Now that the war has ended, we admit, of course, that the objections we have repeatedly raised during the past few months to holding a General Election no longer count. Mr. A. P. Nicholson. the well-informed Political Correspondent of the Daily News, stated in Wednesday's paper that the Liberal hfinisterialiste are satisfied that " certain principles of Free Trade will be honoured," while Unionists gather that there will be " Imperial Preference, no dumping, and the maintenance of key industries." The Liberals further understand that another effort will be made towards a
Home Rule settlement, with no coercion of Ulster. We are given to understand that Unionists accept this prospect in the conviction that Home Rule in any case is impossible. The Unionists are also said to have secured some revision of Welsh Church finance and some reform of the House of Lords.
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