At Colchester, on Wednesday, Mr. Sohn Morley and Mr. Trevelyan
delivered public addresses, Mr. John Morley speak- ing to the London and Counties Liberal Union, which held a meeting in that place. Mr. Morley said that he did not think any one would much regret the dissolution of this Parliament, but he did regret to find that dissolution preceded by an extraordinary spread of political dissoluteness. Mr. Morley exceedingly desired to see more ballast in the Liberalism of the day, especially now that the Conservative Party had gone over to the demagogues, and could no longer be relied on for political ballast. He observed with anxiety that there were three evils making progress, both amongst his friends and his opponents. The first was political hurry and impatience,— inability to wait till the results of a right policy should ripen. The second was a growing one-sidedness,—an indisposition to look at all the aspects of our multifarious political life, an indisposition which, in so complex an empire as ours, is very dangerous. The third evil of which he noticed the increase was political senti- mentalism,—the predominance of emotion over solid conviction. For the cure of all three evils he looked to the fuller enfranchise- ment of the labouring class, and especially to the enfranchise- ment of the hardy labouring class of the North.
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