Mr. Chamberlain then went on to appeal to Mr. Morley
to declare in his approaching speech at Newcastle, whether or not the English Home-rulers had accepted the measure of 1886 as intended to be, in relation to all the guarantees against separation, final; and whether, after the confessions of the Irieb. Home-rulers of both sections, any such assumption could for the future be honestly made. He challenged Mr. Morley to say whether or not he is now prepared to give to the Irish Parliament and Administration, the control of the land and the control of the Constabulary,—the last really a discip- lined military body in a civilian uniform. If he will, he gives Ireland the power to defy the "Supreme Parliament," unless England chooses to enforce her power by a regular civil war. If he will not, and yet advocates Irish Home-rule, he offers to Ireland a measure which both sections of the Irish party are pledged to reject, and this in spite of Mr. Gladstone's assurance that it would be the utmost folly to offer anything which would not unite Irishmen in its favour.
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