The London popular demonstrations have not of late been very
imposing affairs. That held last Saturday evening in Trafalgar Square to protest against the proclamation of the National League seems to have been simply ridiculous. Not- withstanding that the Radical clubs marched with their bands and banners from all parts of London, that the Socialists were enlisted to make an audience, and that there was a fair con- course of London street-loafers, a crowd of such small dimen- -aims was got together, that the chairman, Mr. Macdonald, M.P., left in dudgeon before the meeting was well begun. London must be a perfectly heart-breaking place to the Home. rule agitator. His great argument is that of "the classes and the masses," and yet in what ought to be the very centre of his operations, those who detest his opinions are in an immense majority.
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