The other great speech was delivered in the Bingley Hall
on Wednesday to an enthusiastic audience of eighteen thousand people. It dwelt almost exclusively on the Irish Question, went over all the old ground, not excepting " Remember Mitchelstowia ! " but making no mention of Colonel Dopping. Mr. Gladstone attacked the "foul and wicked" policy of the Union in stronger terms than ever; he denounced the Liberal Unionists for not at once conceding local government to Ireland ; he attacked the Government for punishing Members of Parliament who have deliberately incited Irish tenants to withhold their rents, not as political prisoners, but as ordinary transgressors of the law ; and he declared that because a Coroner's inquest had found a verdict in Mr. Mandeville's case in plain contradiction to the facts, the Government show themselves to be indifferent to the law in not meekly accepting the verdict just as the tamed shrew accepted her husband's statements when they were absolutely contradicted by her own eyesight. Finally, he declared that in encouraging the Ulster Loyalists to resist Home-rule, the Liberal Unionists are unscrupulously trying to sow religions jealousy in Ireland. Mr. Gladstone made no reference to the deliberate threats of the Irish Party to take revenge on their opponents when they came to the top. His view appears to be that the Parnellites will vie with each other in acts of generosity to the foes of Home-rule, and that the love of Mr. Dillon and Mr. Healy and Mr. Harrington for England, will be like the love of Damon for Pythias. Should we not rather say, like the love of Dr. Moorhead for poor Dr. Ridley ?
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