Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has been very active during the week,
and on Monday he addressed a large meet- ing at Lancaster. We do not wish to say anything about his fleunderings in regard to the war, or to answer his astonishing statement: " I have never uttered a word from first to last of this business calculated in any way to encourage the Boers to prolong the struggle." The Imperialist. Liberals, as Mr. Perks showed in his entirely adequate handling of Sir Henry Camp. bell-Bannerman's ill-tempered attack on the Methodist Times, are quite capable of saying all that is necessary: We must, however, notice the way in which Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman dealt with the question of the over-representation of Ireland. He pretends to think that Unionists demand the reduction of the over-representation of Ireland, not because it is just; but in order to punish the Irish Members. He will not, he says, be a party to or vote for any such proposal as the taking away of thirty Members from Ireland, " which is intro. duced to us not as a reform, but because it is a weapon or an instrument of punishment."
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