29th Sept, AN article with the above title appears in the latest issue of the Fortnightly Review over the signature "Delta" and if it shows nothing else, it shows somebody must be found to take that there is a general feeling that over the Foreign Office from Lord Salisbury. The opening paragraph is:—
A well-known journalist whose com-potence as a student of the drift of public opinion is incontestable, wrote to me the other day a letter, in the course of which he said: "Though the English people never seem to me quite to trust Chamberlain, they feel that he represents the vigour and' youthfulness of the..country and understands much better than Salisbury, Balfour & Ca., how little we like the policy of peaceful concessions." ° This, of course,- is only: a very rough impression, but I believe it tobe substantially ' accurate. Whether the public mind is itself fully sensible of its tendency towards Mr. Chamberlain may be doubted.; but the influences which are guiding it are clear enough to the outside observer. The growing consciousness of a crisis in Imperial affairs touching the fundamental conditions of our national prosperity and individual comfort; a deepening conviction that the conventional party leaders have proved unequal to the peril; a feeling that in pluck, energy,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.