Mr. Morley was summoned by telegraph to Dublin on Tues-
day morning to be sworn in, but returned to Newcastle on Thursday, and again addressed the electors, intimating that even during the few hours that he had spent in Dublin he had accumulated fresh evidence of the impossibility of reverting again to a policy of force. He declared against Separation with as much earnestness as if Separation were a very much worse con-
tingency than the half-and-half system of divided responsibility, and a cat-and-dog life, to which Home-rule must lead, and assured his bearers that nothing would persuade him to place the liberty and property of the minority at the mercy of the majority of Irishmen. But, of course, be gave no hint as to the way in which, by withdrawing from interference in Irish affairs, we are to secure the minority in rights which, even with very constant and effective interference, we have had the utmost difficulty in guarding, and are not guarding now. Mr. Morley, however, promises to establish a popular Government in Ireland, which will do what the majority wish, and yet not invade the rights of the minority, which is exactly what the majority wish most strongly.
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