Mr. Gladstone's speech at Liverpool on Monday was the speech
which apparently elicited the most remarkable enthu- siasm. Yet it seems to us one of the most unsound of these great speeches. Be vehemently attacked Lord Hartington for quoting his own condemnation of the Parnellites in 1881, when he thought them wrong, as if it afforded any reason for his con- demning them now, when he "thinks and knows they are right." He reiterated the willingness,—which we had under- stood that in Scotland he had virtually intimated to be at an end,—to give separate securities "to portions of Ulster," "if a good and rational plan with general approval can be contrived, under which a part of Ulster can be separately dealt with." The Government, he said, would " take up that plan in a friendly spirit." We cannot say that with all these qualifications this promise comes to anything ; still, in Liverpool, at all events, it was reiterated, though we had understood Mr. Gladstone to intimate in Scotland that he bad been convinced by Mr. Parnell that such a plan was impracticable. The rest of his speech was devoted to the elo- quent development of the view that the nation is on Mr. Glad- stone's side, and only the classes on ours,—a view to which we have given sufficient exposition and criticism in another column. He concluded by predicting that if the Government shall be defeated, "the child that is unborn shall rue " the voting of tliat day.
