27 AUGUST 1887, Page 2

Mr. Jacob Bright's presence in the Rotunda was important only

on account of his great name. It was hardly decent, we think, to show so publicly how utterly he separates himself from the policy of the brother who has made the name of Bright famous to all ages in the history of both England and Ireland. But Mr. Jacob Bright is the best judge of that. If he chooses to give this additional lustre to the patriotism of the great Free- trader, by adding the force of contrast to the significance of Mr. John Bright's indignant disapproval of the Parnellite policy,— the world can have no objection. It will remember Mr. Jacob Bright only as the brother who did what he could,—thongh what he could was nothing,—to injure the effect of Mr. John Bright's great example.