The prospect of an immediate dissolution seems to have some-
what diminished in the week. At least Sir William Hart-Dyke, the Conservative Whip, who said something at the dinner to Cranbrook which was supposed to indicate an immediate prospect of dissolution, has officially explained that he did not mean to convey any such notion, and that he was only referring to what must happen whenever the appeal to the constituencies came. In point of fact, the question is not as yet decided, and will probably depend a good deal on the result of next week's debate. If that debate should, in the opinion of the Govern- ment, make the country more uneasy, instead of more elated, as to the great coup of the Anglo-Turkish Convention, no doubt the dissolution will be postponed, and the compact majority not as yet endangered. But if the country should seem to be darned, then no doubt the dissolution will come, before the glitter and the glare have vanished from the eyes of the con- stituencies.
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