• enlivened by a most amusing comedy. In the "News
of the Week" in your last issue you quote Mr. Younger's expression of thankfulness when" the Tariff Reform League had taken up its bed and walked from Ayr." Before this happy event Mr. Younger, in desperate fear that the men of Ayr would take him for a 1 " whole-hogger," uttered a very bitter cry. The Tariff Reform
League, certain that they knew Mr. Younger much better than Mr. Younger knew himself, were at first determined to stay where they were. Their persistent attentions drew from Mr.
Younger the following, which was reported in the Glasgow Herald of January 23rd :—
" The Birmingham Tariff League is doing me a great deal of harm. I am beginning to wonder whether my opponents have not brought them to Ayr. I do not suppose for a moment they did; but if they had it would have been a very astute piece of electioneering tactics."
It would be interesting to know how the agents of the Tariff Reform League like Mr. Younger's picture of them as the last arrow in the quiver of Radical unscrupulosity ! It is perhaps not generally known in England that Mr. Younger, on the strength of his abjuration of the Tariff Reform League and
all its works, received the whole-hearted and powerful support of the Free-trade Glasgow Herald. But for this, it is more
than likely that Ayr Burghs would have been a repetition of
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