Lord Cadogan made a good speech at the Sheffield Cutlers'
Feast on Thursday. He once heard, he said, one of his own children at church " endeavour, with only moderate success, to follow the clergyman in one of the best-known prayers of the Liturgy; and he was gratified to hear him say that he had left undone those things which he ought not to have done, and had done those things which he ought to have done." He did not venture to make quite the same confession on behalf of the Government, but he evidently thought that even if he had made it, the confession would not be very wide of the mark. If " doing " did not unfortunately include " saying," it would be very near the mark ; but no one can accuse Lord Salisbury of always leaving unsaid what he ought not to have said, or even of saying all that he ought to say. Lord Cadogan, who describes himself as a Conservative in " Dod," made quite a Liberal Unionist confession of political faith at Sheffield, and evidently holds the Government happy in having been so much swayed towards the more popular policy of Lord Hartington by the circumstances of the Irish crisis. He justly claimed credit for the Government not only for having fulfilled the promises it had given, but also,—which is even rarer,—for not having indulged in promises which it knew that it could never fulfil.
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