We mean to treat the Plural Voting Bill and the
party intrigues with which it is surrounded with the contempt they merit. Therefore we shall say nothing, now on this score. We meet, however, even at the risk of drawing near the sickly miasmas of this marsh, congratulate Mr. Boner Law on his manly, straight• forward, and statesmanlike speech in the House on Tuesday. That it was made in the best Parliamentary manner matters little. What does matter is that it was. a speech inspired by loyal and honourable feeling and true patriotism. Moreover, it was a speech in which. Mr. Boner law dealt with a most difficult position, not by adroit Parliamentary diplomacy, but by honesty of utterance. To insinuate, as the Times appears to do in its ironically complimentary leading article of Thursday, that Mr. Boner Law showed the spirit of party seems to ue most unfaie and utterly inconsistent with the facts. What Mr. Boner Law did was, while acknowledging party tics and party loyalty, to insist that they must he subothinated to the public good.
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