Mr. Morley was the chief speaker at a meeting of
the League of Young Liberals held at the Queen's Hall on Monday night. He illustrated the distractions and dissensions in the Cabinet by the differences at the Board of Trade, and declared that if, when he bad been Irish Secretary, any one in his Department had made a strong speech in favour of Unionism, he would have written to Mr. Gladstone and said: "Either my colleague must go or I must go." In view of the high' character and bearing of the Premier up till recently, he could not call his conduct tactics : he called it political and moral humiliation. As for Ireland, he contended that the case for drastic reform of its government was admitted on all sides, and though he would not have duality if he could help it, he was by no means sure that unity of government was a great blessing. Mr. Morley further declared that he would have very moderate confidence in a new Cabinet if it did not contain a direct representative of Labour, and ended by saying that as the Liberals had tried patience for twenty years, he voted that they now tried courage.
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