Lord Randolph Churchill is stumping the North against - the Bill,
and has delivered two speeches in Liverpool, one in Perth, and one at Birriam against it. The first speech at Liverpool, mentioned last week, was the best because the orator let himself go ; but the speech at Perth on Tuesday was a good party speech, with its description of the Government as a travelling-circus in depressed circumstances, and obliged to attract custom by parading one attraction after another. It contained also a masterly exposure of the powerlessness of the British Government in Ireland when confronted with an Irish Parliament and an Irish Executive, and of a difficulty hitherto unnoticed, the incessant appeals which will be made to the Courts and to the Imperial Parliament on the ground that the Parliament of Dublin is exceeding its powers and breaking through statutory restrictions. There was, too, in it, as we have said elsewhere, a scathing attack on the financial clauses, as sure to be resisted by the Irish; and on the statement that the Irish have no control over foreign politics, or over the action of her Majesty's forces. Under the Bill they have precisely the same control as the English or the Scotch, that is, they can threaten to overthrow the Government if those forces are not employed as they approve, while the third schedule distinctly allows them to vote on all Imperial expenditure, the diplomatic services included.
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