Lord Salisbury, the Archbishop of York, and Lord Ribbles- dale
having spoken, Lord Beauchamp was put up on behalf of the Government to state that, if a desire were expressed from all quarters for a Conference, the Government would feel it their duty to facilitate calling it together, and would do so with every hope of a successful issue. Upon this Lord Lansdowne declared that he attached importance to Lord Beauchamp's announcement, because he was one of those who believed that it was in that direction, and in that direction alone, that we could look for anything like a lasting settle- ment of the Irish difficulty. Accordingly Lord Dunraven's proposal was agreed to 'without a division. Finally, the motion that " the Bill do now pass " was put and carried without a division. The whole Irish situation is so topsy- turvy that there has been very little comment upon the strange fact that the Amending Bill is now a whole lap in front of the Bill which it seeks to amend.
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