Professor Case has pointed out, in a letter to last
Saturday's Times, that Mr. Gladstone already appears to be repenting of the opposition he gave to Dr. Clark's amendment to the address in favour of Home-rule for Scotland on February 19th. Last week, in answering the address of the Midlothian con- veners of the Liberals, he speaks of it as a matter of satisfaction to him "that the effect of the Irish controversy has been to define more clearly the position of Scotland, and to improve her means of pressing what she deems, and may deem, to be her reasonable claims, and her substantial interests." We heartily agree with Professor Case that everything appears to indicate that for Mr. Gladstone the line of least resistance will take him further and further into full-blown Federalism, however little he may have been originally inclined to that dangerous and unwise policy.
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