10 DECEMBER 1910, Page 3

Mr. O'Brien's invective is at once more prolix and more

violent. Mr. Roche, who once " beslavered" him (Mr. O'Brien) with "fulsome adulation," is "a renegade of the very lowest breed, who has eclipsed even Mr. Dillon and Mr. Redmond and Mr. Devlin in his virulent and impotent malignity against me." It was a " personal degradation " to Mr. O'Brien even to discuss the merits of such a candidate. One is reminded of the saying of another Irishman who once exclaimed : " It is a positive profanation of the name black- guard to -apply it to Mr. —." Note also that these amenities are indulged in by one section of Mr. Asquith's " united and homogeneous " majority at the expense of another.