General Goldsworthy, the Conservative Member for Hammer- smith, related some
striking instances of Irish outrage, especially one in which the tenants had cat down the woods on an estate, and bad buried the timber, and had threatened to cut off the ears of the agent if he interfered ; but he declined to endanger the agent by mentioning the place. And Lord Randolph Churchill made a speech in which he avowed his former hope of cementing an alliance with the Irish Party, which he thought he might have effected as the Whigs effected such an alliance in O'Connell's time, by concessions not even touching Home-rule ; and he quoted, from Mr. Gladstone's Aberdeen speech in 1871, Temarks covering with ridicule the demand for a separate Irish Parliament. He did not, however, quote the passage in the same speech which suggested considerable concessions to the Irish in the matter of local self-government. Of course, the debate terminated in mere talk. The motion of Mr. Holmes was negatived without a division.
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