It is, of course, extremely difficult to say how far
the country has been affected by the arguments of the advocates of preferential duties; but as far as we can judge, and making every effort not to see what we should like to see, but only the facts, we should say that the country had remained cold to the appeals of the Zollvereinists. Certainly the leaders of the working men have shown no signs of throwing themselves , into the fight; and though a considerable portion of the Press has been very strong in its support of Mr. Chamberlain's scheme, the sympathetic echo from the nation which one expects , in such cases does not seem to have been given back. In a word, . it looks to us as if John Bull were thrusting his hands deep into his pockets and turning a very broad and irreeponsive back on the advocates of a " tied-house " Imperialism.
