On Monday, Mr. Gladstone received some fifteen hundred Liberals from
Burslem and the Potteries in Hawarden Park.
Before he addressed the main body of the deputation, their committee had an audience in Ha,warden Castle, where they presented to him a Burslem vase with a symbolical figure of Liberty in the centre, with Homer on the right and Dante on the left. On the back of the vase is a figure of St. George, supported on one side by William Wal1a0P, and on the other by Brian Born. Then there are figures of Ireland with bowed head, and Poland with hair unbound. Mr. Gladstone, in accepting the vase and expressing his thanks with his usual cordiality and humility, referred to the great work effected by Josiah Wedgwood, and especially to the unvarying truth and beauty of the forms introduced in his Wedgwood ware; and Mr. Gladstone declared that in the vase presented to him, this atten- tion to truth and grace of form was as remarkable as in the old Wedgwood ware. Further, he congratulated the presentation committee on the disappearance in the Potteries of that un- worthy jealousy of female labour which at one time led to rules intended expressly to prevent any danger of female competition. "No injustice," said Mr. Gladstone, "whether in Ireland or elsewhere, can ever prosper." We wish he would enforce that maxim,—of the universal applicability of which, however, no one can be convinced unless a very liberal allowance of temporary prosperity be admitted as perfectly compatible with the denial of true prosperity,—on his Par- nellite allies, on those, for instance, who approve of a doctor's writing down beforehand what he proposes to discover in the condition of an Irish prisoner whom he has never seen, and before he has even had a personal interview, publishing it as his own evidence as to that prisoner's state.
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