Mr. Childers made an important speech at Pontefract on Thursday
a sketch of which we have given elsewhere, laying down the chief objects which a Liberal Administration would have in view. We may add here that he began by remarking that it did not at all follow that if the Tories were left in a minority at the next election, the Liberals would have a majority. There are now no longer only two parties in Parliament. The Home- rulers might easily hold the balance, and nothing would induce the Liberal leaders to obtain power by submitting to the terms of the Home-rulers. The Liberals would, however, sympathise with many of the objects of the Home-rulers. They quite admitted that much remains to be done to remove the grievances of Ireland, but nothing would induce them to lend any support to the policy of a separate Parliament for Ireland. Evidently, the first resolve of the Liberal Front Bench is not to take office at all if they could only govern with the help of the Home-rulers.
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