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We may add that on Thursday, in reply to further

questions Mr. Wyndham reiterated that no change had been made in the conditions under which Sir Antony MacDonnell held his post, but refused to admit that the situation was exactly the same as it was before the debate on the subject. We have dealt with this capital example of government by philandering elsewhere, and will only say here that the incident has greatly discredited the Ministry. They were willing to use Sir Antony MacDonnell and his Home-rule and Nationalist sympathies till the Orangemen threatened them. But the moment Sir Edward Carson's rebuke was heard, they cowered in the corner and sighed about " unaccount- able mistakes" and "regrettable misunderstandings."