Mr. Morley spoke at Newcastle on Tuesday, and did not
conceal for a moment the reverse from which the Gladstonians are suffering. He believed that it was only temporary. And with a democracy that would defeat the Government one day because Miss Cass had been unjustly arrested, and would turn against Mr. Gladstone another day because Mr. Parnell had misconducted himself, no one can ever say safely whatevill be temporary and what permanent. But at present it is certain that the Irish cause is not popular with English constituencies, though it was very unfair of Mr. Morley to use Mr. Howorth's evidence as to the coarse way in which Lancashire constituen- cies express their impatience with the Irish cause as if that represented Mr. Howorth's own bias, or as if he had wished to fan the antipathy between the two races (who are not really distinct races at all, the most Irish part of 'Ireland being at least half-Saxon). Mr. Morley exonerated Mr. Gladstone from all responsibility for the sounding of Mr. Parnell as to his possible acceptance of the Irish Secretaryship under Mr.. Gladstone ; that was done entirely on his own responsibility, and was in no sense an offer. Very likely; but it was a very unfortunate moment even for sounding Mr. Parnell, when tle divorce case was just about to be opened, Mr. Morley having no knowledge at all as to how it would go and what it would reveal. That surely was not the right time for an irrespo:. sible inquiry as to whether Mr. Parnell were still averse to taking office under Mr. Gladstone.
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