24 OCTOBER 1885, Page 2

Lord Harlington opened a Liberal Club at Grimsby on Wednesday.

In doing so he commented on the curious divisions in the economical policy of the Tory Party. There is Mr. Lowther, advocating full-blown Protectionism ;

Ecroyd, who advocates "Fair-trade ;" and Mr. Stanhope, who is a strong Free-trader. In this Lord Hartington saw far more serious division than he could find in the Liberal ranks. He treated the promise to the agricultural labourer of three acres and a cow as a pure myth, disowned by Mr. Jesse Collings, and not traced to any one else. And in the evening meeting, after taking rather more pains than was perhaps necessary to show that the Liberal policy in Egypt, whether always wise or not, was at the time, if not absolutely the most judicious, at least the most in accord with general opinion, both Conservative and Liberal, then open to them, Lord Harling- ton pointed out how absurd it is to suppose that Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir John Gorst can heartily agree in Irish policy with Mr. Planket and Lord Ashbourne (formerly Mr. Gibson), or in Egyptian policy with Lord Salisbury, who is pledged to the present Khedive, while Lord R. Churchill has repeatedly denounced him as not only a tyrant, but an accomplice in actual crime. On the Reform of Procedure in the House of Commons, Lord Hartington expressed a very strong opinion. So far from its being an invasion of the freedom of the House of Commons, it is, he said, absolutely necessary to the freedom of the House of Commons that the procedure should be reformed. There is, said Lord Hartington, no freedom of debate now in the House of Commons. The immoderate length of discussion on a few subjects prevents the House altogether from approaching others for the discussion of which there is often a far more urgent necessity, and a far more earnest desire in the House itself.