to Ireland an improved system of local government suited
to its wants, when it is made clear that the people are pre- Mr. Balfour made a stinging reply to the defence of the pared to receive and work it in a spirit of loyalty to the English Home-rule leaders that they have changed their minds. Crown and Constitution." Mr. Gladstone contended that that That is all right, he said, but does not give them a right to call
than eight thousand Welshmen assembled in the great pavilion I was equivalent to saying that Ireland would not be governed usually devoted to Eisteddfods. at Carnarvon. After a few as Great Britain is governed until the Government chose to be words on foreign affairs, notable only for a strong assertion convinced that the Irish would not employ the new local that if he had continued the foreign policy of Lord Rosebery, liberties entrusted to them, as the English and Scotch peoples he had not continued that of Lord Granville—a remark, we would certainly employ the same local liberties, for the sake fancy, intended for some foreign address—and a splendid of gaining whatever they thought it essential to their national panegyric on Mr. Gosehen as financier and Mr. Chamberlain aspirations to gain. And such an intimation Mr. Gladstone as diplomatist, both of whom he reckoned among the " good vehemently condemned. It is evident that we are on the eve of fortunes " of the Government, he addressed himself to the warmer work in the House of Commons.
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