The Times has an admirable article on the necessity of
speedy con- cession to that determined state of public opinion which is manifested in the existence and progress of the Anti-Corn-law League, recruited as its forces are even from the domestic circle,—maids and matrons flocking to the theatres where it swears. "Too late" is the burden of the song: "experience set at nought—advice derided—warnings neglected "—these made the League what it is. The Times hints a hankering after a "moderate fixed duty "; but does not its own statute of limitations apply ? It is too late for the old Whig eight-shilling duty, or any such compromise ; to reopen the question before the noise of the present struggle can have died away. Something may depend, however, upon the amount of duty : there is such a thing, for instance, as a shilling "fixed duty."
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