Mr. Morley made a long and vehement speech at Newcastle
on Monday night, but there was little of real interest in it. The fact is, that a man with so much width of philosophic vision as the late Irish Secretary, finds it very hard to make a good fighting speech. He is apt, as Mr. Morley was on Monday, to become merely captious. The peroration showed, however, great pluck, and all Mr. Morley's habitual honesty. He would not, he said, ask or accept the votes of any one who had not the Irish cause at heart, and did not believe Ireland was being cruelly wronged. This great controversy between nation and nation was not a controversy that men -could take up and let fall. " Do you think that some of us who have thrown nine or ten of the best years of our life into this cause, are going to let it drop P" If English Liberals aban- doned the Irish cause, the last state would be worse than the first. " You will have a deeper estrangement, a wider alienation than you ever had before." This is finely put, but we believe Mr. Morley is as much mistaking Irish feeling as when he thought that they would not object to a statue to CromwelL
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