There is no sign yet of an Autumn Session. Mr.
Lowe urged, in a letter to the Times of this day week, that on Lord Beaconsfield's own showing the country is entirely opposed to the policy of the Government; and that Lord Beaconsfield regards the men whose opinion coincides with the country as "worse than the authors of the Bulgarian atrocities." It was, therefore, he said, a mere accident that the Government is in a position to thwart the dearest wishes of the country, and it would be base to submit "to be deprived by mere chicane of those rights of self-government which we have, it would seem, wrung from powerful Kings, but cannot wrest from Ministers, the creatures of our own creation." The truth is that England is only a constitutional country during the Session of Parliament. Our constitutional day, like the Arctic day, lasts long when it comes ; but so does our constitu- tional night.
