The Daily News of Thursday, following the lead of Wednes-
day's Standard,—how is it, by the way, that official hints to Liberal malcontents so often ooze out through the Standard ?— speaks with a sort of airy candour of the steady growth of a feeling below the gangway on the Liberal side of the House unfavourable to the National Debt Bill,—Mr. Childers's Bill, that is, for re-creating long annuities, in place of the five millions about to expire in 1885, and for the ultimate cancelling of £170,000,000 of Debt within the next twenty years. Of course, our Liberal contemporary is aware that this proposal is one of the principal elements of the Budget, that it has received the sanction of the Cabinet, and that the Liberal constituencies in the country have accepted it with the utmost cordiality. Does the Daily News really mean to smile on this new attempt to hollow out a very formidable cave, which might very easily result in a political crisis ? If it does not, it should have treated this growing disloyalty to a most important Liberal measure,—if growing disloyalty there be, except in the imagina- tion of one or two intriguers,—with rebuke and displeasure. If it does, how are we to distinguish the tone of the Daily News, on this important question, from the tone of the Stamlird ?
