20 AUGUST 1892, Page 3

Mr. Chamberlain also spoke, and dwelt powerfully on the humiliating

position of Mr. Gladstone's Administration in being compelled to recognise politicians whom they had formerly condemned as enemies of the country and of all good Government, as their political masters, whose demands they must satisfy to the full if they would retain their majority at all. To have to satisfy men who have shown themselves not only indifferent, but hostile to the honour and interests of their country, must be a position fall of pain and 'shame. Yet that is the position of the new Ministry if it would even so much as pass a Home-rule Bill through the House of Commons.