18 AUGUST 1883, Page 2

Mr. Forster made a very striking speech at Devonport on

Thursday, in which he heartily supported not only the present Administration, but the present Administration of Ireland, as one that had made very great changes for the better even since his own resignation of office. He spoke with great cordiality of Mr. Trevelyan's Tramways and Emigration Bill, and even of the experiment in "migration," as an experiment that ought to be tried, though he did not ignore its great difficulties. Mr. Forster ridiculed the idea of looking for " gratitude " from Ireland. The Land Act was not a measure for which gratitude should be expected. It was simply a measure of justice. Of disunion between Ireland and England, Mr. Forster spoke as of an all but absolute impossibility.