Mr. Chamberlain made a second speech at Huddersfield on Wednesday,
remarkable for the heartiness with which he endorsed Lord Hartington's expression of belief that the Unionists and Conservatives must ultimately be fused into a National Party, organised not only to retain Ireland within the Kingdom, but to defeat the "inconceivable political heresies," such as the righteousness of resistance to law, into which the disorganised Liberal Party is "blossoming out." Mr. Chamberlain admitted that even to save the Empire he could not call himself a Tory, nor would the Tories call them- selves Liberals ; but they could find a new name for a new and " national " party. The idea evidently is, when the new party is formed, to call its members "Nationals ;" but we doubt if the word will go down with the rank and file. It is discredited by Irish associations. The proper word would be "Whigs ;" but as the world has agreed on an absurd aialike for a name illustrious all through our modern history, why should we not adhere to the word forced
on us by circumstances, and already a word to boast of—
viz., " Unionists " P Mr. Chamberlain was strong on the difficulty we should find in reconquering Ireland after her Parliament had armed her people, and quoted the instance of the Transvaal; but he abstained from mentioning that Ireland might be assisted both by America and France. That prudent reticence rather impaired his argument, for when the Colonies revolted we had not within them a million of devoted allies as we have in Ulster, nor could we apply to America as we could to Ireland a strict blockade, lasting, if necessary, two or three years.
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