Mr. John Morley,—the Right Honourable John Morley, as we suppose
we must now call him,—addressed his constituents on Monday at Newcastle, on the subject of the re-election for which be was asking after his acceptance of office. He spoke as if he had the promise of Mr. Cowen's support in the contest with Mr. Hamond, and, indeed, as if, in relation to Irish policy, Mr. Cowen and be were at one. He held it unjustifiable that his seat should be contested again when he had so frankly ex- plained his policy in relation to Ireland at the General Election, and had, indeed, submitted to the electors the very policy which he is now called on by Mr. Gladstone to apply practically to that country. He quoted Lord Salisbury's advice to keep some stability of purpose in the treatment of Ireland, and asked what stability of purpose there was in refusing to ask for a new Crimes Act, then announcing in the Queen's Speech that it was uncertain whether Ireland could be governed without some additional powers,—as to which the Ministers said there was to be inquiry,—and finally, within three days, without any such inquiry, coming down to Parliament to ask for these addi- tional powers. ‘. Such," he said, was "the incredible levity, the headlong incoherency, the ludicrous vacillation with which the late Government illustrated Lord Salisbury's highly edifying homily upon the beauty of a steady and consistent policy." " Here you had a Ministry which had neither a majority nor a policy."
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