Mr. Morley made a vehement attack on Lord Harlington, of
the injustice of which we have said enough in another column. On the subject of Land-purchase, he adhered to his old line, asserting that many of the recent purchases had been concluded " under coercion," and that the tenants had declared themselves unable to pay the instalments. And in respect to the " congested districts," he maintained that nothing could be done without enlisting on the side of the Government which proposed the relief, the local opinion of the country as repre- sented by the Nationalist leaders and the Nationalist clergy. Mr. Morley was extremely well received at Scarborough, and was greeted with that singularly inappropriate song, " For he's a jolly good fellow." Is it really impossible to find a more reasonable piece of rhythmical eulogy than that for such a statesman as Mr. Morley P Good, no doubt, in many most im- portant respects, he is ; but jolly he never could be, and he would not be what he is to his friends if that inane adjective, dear only to wine-bibbers, applied to him.
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