Lord Rosebery has written a letter to Mr. J. H.
Edwards, -the editor of Young Wales, expressing his gratification that there is to be what is, in the literary cant of the day, called a symposium,"—meaning a collection of separately written essays,—on Home-rule for Wales. Lord Rosebery declines to contribute his own view, saying that he bolds himself aloof from such questions till he learns the policy of the Govern- ment. We trust, however, that the Government will not even -deign to have a policy on the subject of Home-rule for Wales, any more than on the policy of Home-rule for the Scotch Highlands, or any other mere "castle in Spain." Still, Lord Rosebery adds that, in his opinion, "there is serious and perhaps increasing difficulty in obtaining the time and attention of Parliament for the discussion of sub- jects which do not directly concern England, but only the other members of the British partnership." We should have said that the greater difficulty is to obtain the time and atten- tion of Parliament for subjects that do directly concern Eng- land, and do not directly concern the other members of the British partnership. Ireland has had the lion's share of the
time of Parliament for many years back, and even Wales more than her fair proportion. But Lord Rosebery's political opinions on such matters are too inconsistent with each other to render them of any great importance.
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