We may note that, in his reply to the advocates
of the eight-hours mining day, Mr.. Gladstone says expressly : " We shall propose autumn sittings for business ; " and not merely as last week that the Government is " disposed" to make this proposal. And with the thickening of the plot due to the competition amongst the various progressives, we shall most likely find the Government driven, in spite of their declared reluctance to dissolve, to out the complicated knots in which they will soon find themselves involved, by a very much earlier Dissolution than they at present contemplate. The formal attack on the National Church which the Welsh Disestablishment measure must precipitate, if the Welsh con- tingent succeed in forcing it on, would soon set the prairie on fire, and render either Dissolution or disaster absolutely in- evitable.
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