, 1893-10-04

WIN CnN0A WOulO OV6ILuIOW any possible
Government NJ. Carnot could get together.
Sir E Grey, when speaking on this subject
on Thursday, evidently expected nothing of
the first Importance, but m ade the important
remark that Lord Dufferin would be back in
Paris this week.
The debate on the third reading of the
Home-rule Bill was begun by Mr.. Gladstone
on Wednesday at noon, in a speech which
produced an extraordinary effect in the
House of Commons, but which certainly does
not impress its readers so much as it evidently
impressed its hearers. II went ovec old
ground in dealing with the historical exam
Piles Of Home-rule in Austria Hungary,
Sweden and Norway, and so forth. 1t went
over old ground with which Mr.. Chaplin
showed himself ather more conversant az
regards the literature of Europe on the sub
iect, than the Prime Minister; and it went
over ground already travelled over by Mr..
Morley in his Newcastle speech, when Mr.,
Gladstone dwelt on the lavish criticism
levelled at the Bill by the Opposition. Mr..
Gladstone stated the seven pleas against the
Bill with some force, atteuuated by obvious
exaggeration; but cOntented himself with
simply asserting that avery plea so advanced
would be much nearer the truth If a mot
were inserted before each of the operative
~ 4AtbA oRAOPC6 v AGAt CAAN4N hS
quoted Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's witty
statement that in the eighteenth century it
seemed as If all the "nOts' had been taken
out of the Commandments in order to be dis
tributcd over the articles of the Creed. May
it not be said that Mr.. Gladstone, in his
elaborate and reiterated apologies for the
Irish boycotters and "Campaigners has
been apparently preparing for a like transpo-
sition. saving up the "nOts' borrowed from
the commandments of the moral law for
insertion in the most Just and convincing Of
the pleas against Home-rule
Mr.. COurtney's speech in proposing the
rejection OF the Bill, was very vigorous. He
pointed out that since the country had been
kept 50 scdulously in tile dark as to the
provisions of the Home rule Bill,-in spite
of the powerful renonstranoes even of Home
ruiars Ike Mr.. Asqnith before he became
Home Secretary it became the positive
duty Of the Opposition to hammer the
objection able features of the Bill into the
minds Of the electorate, by way of preparing
il to give an intelligent vote on the most
important constitutional revolution which
has ever been submitted to them, and one
which the Government seek to disguise by
e%nveloping it in the t~ortuous folds Of the
Newcastle programme. "If they realised
ma w q "a OJ lie AAOlhO~AAlC 0IlL, Iu0y
would see that what was called liberty
was the domination of a class that what was
called peace was warfare that what was
called order was the breaking out Of dis
cord; that instead of the unity of the nation
being established, social and international
bonds were being torn asunder."
In the remainder of the debate, Mr.. Disraeli
made a successful maiden speech, cast very
much in the mould of his unole's rhetoric. of
which the happiest point was that, as regards
the retention of the Irish Members, Mr..
Gladstone's policy had been one of age at
the PROV, and eighty irish Members at the
helm" Perhaps the most important of all
Wednesdays speeches was Mr.. John Red
mond's, who repudinted the Bill most
peremptority as a satisfaction of the Ifish
demand. and accepted it only as a mere
instalment. The finance of the Bill was, he
said, grossly unjust to Ireland. It's limitations
on the Irish Parliament's power to deal with
the land and the collection of the revenue
were utterly inconsistent with the spirit of
Home-rule; so that, in short, Mr.. Redmond
and his Parnellite followers only accepted
the quarter loaf as sufficient to feed them
while they struggled vehemently for the
threesquarters which were still withheld.