Mr. Morley made a speech at Durham on Saturday in
which he had to deal with the question of Royal grants, and found it not very easy to manipulate. He was as complimentary to the Prince of Wales as he could afford to be, saying that few miners or Members of Parliament do their business so well as the Prince does his princely business. Mr. Morley said that he was not in favour, nevertheless, of extending the Royal grants to all the grandchildren of the Queen, though there might be a possible exception in favour of the eldest son of the Heir-Apparent. On the whole, Mr. Morley evidently felt the subject an awkward one, and extricated himself from it with the remark that," as at present advised," he wishes to see these "vexatious grants" done away with, except in the case of children of the Sovereign and the eldest son of the Heir. Apparent. On the subject of Ireland Mr. Morley was, as he is usually nowadays, violent. He said that the Irish land- lords may combine as much as they please, but that the tenants are not allowed to combine. He is mistaken, and he ought to know that he is mistaken. The tenants are, we are told, now about to combine for legal purposes; and if they do, no one will venture to interfere with them. Neither landlords nor tenants ought to be allowed to combine for illegal pur- poses, either in Great Britain or in Ireland. And in either country, illegal combinations will be steadily punished.
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