Mr. Diliwyn, M.P. for the Swansea Boroughs, addressed his constituents
at Neath on Monday, and put very strongly the real issue before the country,—whether or not the country are so well pleased with the doings of the last six years, that they wish to give Lord Beaconsfield six years more, to acquire new white elephants like Cyprus and the Anglo-Turkish Conven- tion ; to seize new scientific frontiers, with results like those of our Afghan policy; and to merge all prospect of reform at home in the urgent anxieties of demoralising strife abroad. Mr. Dillwyn said very justly that the event showed that this Government had, already been able to postpone appeal to the country far too long, and that we want, accordingly, a five-years instead of a seven-years limit to our Parliaments, for the future. No remark could be more just or weighty, at the present moment. The duration of Lord Beaconsfield's policy has already been long enough grievously to endanger our empire in India. If he kept it another six years, his genius is quite equal to endangering our national existence itself.
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