The question which men are asking each other everywhere' ia,
When is the General Election to be ? for the belief that it,
is now inevitablels widespread. We can, of course, claim no special knowledge, nor the power of prediction, but if we may venture upon a sporting shot, we 'should say that the danger- point of the Government will be found to fie the Budget Closure Resolutions. If they can get over them, then they may very likely survive for a month or two longer. If, on the other hand, they fail here, the Dissolution must of course come at once. For many reasons the Government would prefer to come to grief on a neutral question like that of taking time rather than on a direct point of controversy such as that connected with details of the Budget. They are naturally anxious to conceal as far as they can the dominant fact that the Lords referred the Budget to the people, and that the people returned a majority of Members opposed thereto.
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