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If we may judge by the experience of the last

week, an autumn of agitation is a very formidable prospect for journal- ists. Not only is it impossible to count the number of speeches, but the number of great meetings is almost beyond record. The same things, too, are necessarily said over and over again at them all,—one set of things at the Conservative meetings, the opposite set of things at the Liberal meetings, till your head swims with the noise of the fray, and the bewilderment of the contradictions which, like the violent vibrations which the physicists ascribe to the ultimate atoms, all appear to go hurt- ling through the air at once, independently of each other.

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