30 OCTOBER 1886, Page 3

At a meeting of the Leith Liberals yesterday week, an

important letter was read from Lord Rosebery, strongly advo- -eating the reunion of the Liberal Party, if that were possible, -and suggesting that it could not be reunited by the leaders, but might be reunited by an effort from within both wings of the party, seriously made for the purpose of mutual concession. Lord Aberdeen, in speaking on the subject, warmly condemned -the imputation of Separatist motives to that section of the party which follows Mr. Gladstone, and we are very glad to concur with him that no such motives have really actuated them ; nor, indeed, do we think that Separatist motives have often been imputed to them. But the worst of the matter is that, to our minds, it would be even less difficult to reunite the Liberal Party on the policy of virtual or real Separation, than on any form of Home-rule which we have ever had presented to us. Separation would be a frightful evil; but not, we think, so great a one as the series of furious quarrels which those schemes. would initiate, whether they ended in reconquest or in Separa- tion.