We take the Secretary for War, Mr. Campbell-Bannerman to be
"a serious politician ; " but it is evident that he can know very little of other serious politicians, for he told a meeting at Dunfermline on Wednesday, that "there is not a serious politician at this moment in England or Scotland whe does not know that before a very few years have elapsed a measure will become law, if not similar to, at all events almost equivalent to," the Home-rule Bill of the Summer Session. We should have thought that there are a great many more serious politicians who believe that Irish Home-rule will never be carried in the next half-century,—that is, in any time which is now at all within our power of prevision,—than there are of Mr. Campbell-Bannerman's way of thinking. But one of the enigmas of the political situation is the diametrically oppo- site expectations of different "serious politicians."
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