Lord Rosebery made a powerful and useful speech at the
annual dinner of the City Liberal Club on Thursday night. After dealing with the question of the attitude of the Liberal party to the renewal of the Japanese Alliance almost exactly on the lines on which we dealt with it a fortnight ago, Lord Rosebery handled the problem of Home-rule, and handled it in a manner which will, we believe, give very general satisfaction in the country. " It is not possible for any Government, however competent it may deem itself, to bring in any measures for establishing a Parliament, however subordinate, in Dublin without first having made it a matter of special appeal to the country." " My view," he continued, " in a word, is this,—that you may give much to Ireland, and in that respect we have at any rate the example of the recent dealings of the present Government with Ireland. You may give much to Ireland—you may do her inestimable good by proceeding on the grounds of administrative reform—but there is one thing to which no serious statesman will ever expose this country, and that is the curse of dual government at the heart of the Empire."
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