Colonel Stanley and Major-General Fielden addressed their constituents at Blackpool
on Tuesday, though of the sayings of the latter speaker, who was probably the more amusing of the two, we have unfortunately received no account. Colonel Stanley played the part of the virtuous and consistent younger brother, who has stuck to his principles in spite of the bad example set him by his elder, and who has even had the courage to resist being driven into reaction by the desertion of his principles by the head of his house. Colonel Stanley talked very good sense about " Fair-trade," which he declined to countenance, till its advocates could better explain what they meant by their cry. He was also extremely moderate about the Transvaal. On the subject of Parliamentary procedure, Colonel Stanley warned the Government that in removing Parliamentary obstruction, they were only too likely to remove Parliamentary government altogether. He dreaded exceedingly that the House of Commons might be transformed from a deliberative assembly into one that in five or teri minutes could vote "Aye " or " No " on a motion read out without debate. Colonel Stanley might just as well anticipate that because a Government has power to propose doubling the whole taxation in a year of peace, that proposal would be an imminent danger, which only a limitation of their power could securely avert. Colonel Stanley hardly seems to be aware that full responsibility is as good a way of securing a sagacious Government against an aet of folly, as any con- stitutional strait-waistcoat which Parliamentary wisdom could devise.
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