We cannot find space on a Friday to deal with
the rest of Mr. Chamberlain's speech in detail, but may note that he dwelt on the Imperial side of his programme, and stated that, "so far as he was concerned, the sooner the Dissolution came the better." We must, however, before we leave the speech, find space to express our entire agreement with one passage contained in it,—that in which Mr. Chamberlain expressed his confidence that the people of England would decide rightly on the Fiscal question. We have no doubt whatever on this point, and so, like Mr. Chamberlain, we desire the earliest possible appeal to the electors. We must add our great pleasure in noting that all the reports agree in representing Mr. Chamberlain as being in the best of health and vigour. Such news will, we are sure, be received with as much satis- faction by Mr. Chamberlain's political opponents as by his adherents.
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