The decision of the Government to proclaim the National League,
and the mingled moderation and firmness with which it was sustained, have certainly improved their position in the country, and probably enough made the difference between success and defeat in North Huntingdonshire. The whole tone of the Press towards the Government has changed for the better since the debate on the proclamation, so certain is it that the English people like the Government to know its own mind and to act as the Ministry think best, and not to keep veering about with every wind of popular tendency. Mr. Chamberlain's in- formant, quoted this day fortnight in his speech at Highbury, was not alone in thinking that many of the Irish farmers are weary of the National League, and are not at all disposed to pay their subscriptions to that tyrannical body. There we have no doubt that he was right. But was he not wrong in supposing that the proclamation of the League would weld its lukewarm supporters together again P Let the Government show that they wish to do justice to the farmers, and we shall be much surprised if the proclamation of the League does not increase the rapidity with which the union amongst the agitators is dissolved.
