A great Welsh demonstration was made at Carnarvon on Thursday,
attended by the Welsh National Council, the North Wales Liberal Federation, and Sir William Harcourt. The feeling of all who attended was intensely in favour of Dis- establishment, and for a strictly Welsh scheme of education ; but a motion to federalise all existing organisations into a National League for Wales, with Home-rule for its sole pro- gramme, was lost by a large majority. North Wales is not yet in favour of that scheme, and as it is essential that the Liberals of the Principality should act together, Home- rule as a cry is rejected, or rather postponed. Many of the speakers, however, admitted that behind the tithe question lay a land question, and held that the latter could be satisfactorily settled only by a Welsh Parliament. The result, therefore, of Mr. Gladstone's proposal for Ireland is that already there are in Scotland and Wales factions pre- pared to throw off the authority of the general Parliament. No such faction has appeared in England yet, but we expect the development of a new political sect, with a cry for "the Heptarchy of our fathers," before this Parliament ends.
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