7 MAY 1904, Page 3

Neither the policy advocated by Mr. Chamberlain nor that by

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman will come to fruition, and therefore neither declaration is of any importance except as indicating that neither right honourable gentleman knows very much of the opinion of his countrymen, and that both of them are endowed with a kind of Bourbonesque obstinacy, and self-complacency. The country will have neither Dis- establishment nor Home-rule. Both are dead issues. We may add that the second reading of the Bishoprics Bill was carried by a majority of 197 (282 to 85),—an event on which we most sincerely congratulate the promoters of the schemes for the new Sees; and that the proposal to repeal the Crimes Act was negatived by a majority of 73 (197 to 124),—an equally satisfactory result.