2 AUGUST 1884, Page 2

Mr. John Morley took the chair at St. James's Hall

on Wednesday at a conference of 2,000 delegates of Liberal Associations, representing 500 Liberal Associations in different parts of the country, and made a remarkable speech. He declared that the Franchise Bill alone would not eve the people half the power that the Franchise Bill, supplemented by a good Redistri- bution Bill, would give them, and that in asking for the Franchise Bill first, the people only take an instalment of their claims. "Be sure," he said, "that no power on earth can separate hence- forth the question of mending the House of Commons from the question of mending,—or ending,—the House of Lords,"—a declaration which elicited the most enthusiastic burst of applause..