Mr. Chamberlain replies in Thursday's Times to Sir George Trevelyan's
attack, that although Mr. Gladstone has given up his Bills, he has never declared in what respect they will be amended in his future proposals, nor how far he accepts the conditions which Mr. Chamberlain and others,—Sir George Trevelyan amongst them,—had laid down. "The simple fact is," Mr. Chamberlain concludes, "that Sir George Trevelyan has unconditionally surrendered his position, and is now vainly striving to prove that he has secured valuable consideration beforehand." That, no doubt, is the exact position. U Sir George Trevelyan and his Liberal allies have rendered it clearly impossible to carry the assent of the Liberal Party, in any future Home-role proposal, for the exclusion of the Irish Members from the Parliament of Westminster, they have not rendered it impossible to paralyse the arm both of the central Legislature and of the central Administration in relation to Irish affairs ; and if ever Home-rale is carried, that, we may be sure, would be done. Mr. Parnell would not give a farthing for any plan which does not secure him so much as that, and no Home-rule scheme can be carried for which Mr. Parnell would not give a farthing.
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