In the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Wyndham explained
the reasons for his resignation of the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland. He did not, he declared, differ from his late colleagues on any issue of policy ; and he had not changed, even in the smallest degree, the views which he had long held in regard to Irish adminis- tration. Dealing with Mr. Wyndham's explanation, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman declared that nothing whieh the right hon. gentleman had said affected the main question, which was not why the Chief Secretary resigned, but why the Prime Minister accepted his resignation. The Viceroy of Ireland had made no secret of his sympathy with the reforms projected by the Irish Reform Association, and yet he remained at his post. How was this to be accounted for P Apparently Mr. Long was to hold his office with one suspect on his right and another on his left. Mr. Balfour's defence Of his position in regard to the University education question was laboured and ineffective. After a denunciation of Devolution, he turned to the Ulster Members, and deprecated "the unworthy suspicions" which they entertained of their leaders. On a division, the Motion was rejected by a majority of 63 (315 to 252).
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