Mr. Osborne Morgan, on Monday, made a striking as well
as an amusing speech to his Denbighshire constituents, in which he said that this Government had invented a new in- dustry,—the manufacture of dead-letters. They had not only invented Acts like the Agricultural Holdings Act, which was confessedly only permissive, and therefore a dead-letter, but they their best to make dead-letters of the Acts passed by their predecessors. The Government had spent so much money on the. new "Woolwich infants," that it had none left for the educa- tion of the rising generation. The motto of Lord Beaconsfield for the Government, "Empire and liberty," was an excellent one, if " Empire " meant extending the empire of evil passions, and " Liberty " taking liberties with your neighbours' territories. We had had enough of "Peace, with honour," and very soon, he hoped,. we might have had enough of "the magic of patience." When he heard the Government talk of squaring accounts, he was always reminded of the man who uniformly made both ends meet" by borrowing money to do it." l'here was but one states- man who could reissue us from our perilous financial position,—
the old man who, with fire unquenched by the snows of seventy winters, had roused all Scotland, and whom they would send back to power, whether he would or no." Why is it that Wales, like Scotland, is always in the van of Liberalism, while phlegmatic England follows slowly, with heavy tread ?
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