Mr. Forster made an interesting speech, on Thursday, to the
members of the Gladstone Club at Glasgow,—a club intended to look after the young University men, and keep them straight iu the paths of Liberalism. Mr. Forster commented with some irony on the effort of Lord Carnarvon to discover " dormant " literary ability amongst the Conservatives, and remarked that when the dormant ability woke up, it might, perhaps, find itself Liberal, after all. And then he went on to speak on Ireland, advocating strongly a larger emigration measure for such starving families in the west as may be willing or anxious to emigrate, without breaking up as a family, and attributing very much of the weakness of Ire- land to the indisposition of the Irish Members to co-operate heartily with each other in politics, except so far as they are pledged to some great popular agitation. He made a strong point of Lord Salisbury's wonderful aspiration for a Supreme Court of Justice which might over-ride Parliament on all Con- stitutional questions,—in other words, for a paper Constitution, —the most revolutionary of English aspirations, and remarked that there was nothing like the Tories for proposals which struck at the very root of all which had been most highly prized by English statesmen. The very worst feature in federalism was that it involved a paper constitution and a Supreme Court • to interpret that constitution.
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