Yesterday week, the only speeches of any importance in the
House of Commons were those of Colonel Saunderson and Sir Michael Hicks-Beacb. The former did good service by showing that since 1880, vastly the greater number of agrarian murders and attempts at murder had been aimed not at evicting Land- lords, but at persons of a very inferior order, and were intended simply to rivet the yoke of the League on the Irish people. After illustrating the deliberate intention of the National League to render the government of Ireland impossible, Colonel Saunderson remarked on Mr. Gladstone's conversion from a most severe judgment of Mr. Parnell to a most lenient judgment. Mr. Parnell, however, had not changed in any way. Nevertheless, " the very remarkable structure which the right honourable Mem- ber for Midlothian had constructed rested its foundation, on the one aide, on British Radicalism, and on the other, on Irish- American Fenianism, with himself as chief corner-stone. It depended for exterior ornament on two political gargoyles,—the honourable Member for Northampton (Mr. Labouchere) and the honourable Member for North-West Cornwall (Mr. Conybeare)."
