WHO SHOULD BE SENT FOR P—A MORAL FROM MIDLOTHIAN.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SlEt,-Why should the Daily News think it impossible that the Queen should send for Lord Hartington ? Mr. Gladstone impressively told all England from Midlothian, in the autumn, that neither party was to be trusted if its tenure of power depended on the Irish vote. The case has arisen, and why are not the consequences to follow ? When the paper which assumes to be the daily organ of the Liberal Party talks of a majority of seventy-nine just in the same tone as if that majority were not mainly composed of the disaffected, does it not give confirmation strong to Mr. Gladstone's utterance ? What remedy is possible, except a combination formed on the footing of placing the Irish Question out of the region of party ?
A dissolution would, of course, follow ; and a very good thing too. The confused issues of last year—the deceptive show of union and the false compromises which were then imposed on us—would be over, and we should know whether Great Britain intends in earnest to commit her destinies to the Extreme Left,
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