Mr. John Morley addressed his constituents at Newcastle- on-Tyne on
the Derby day instead of visiting the racecourse, as some of the evening papers ironically suggested that he had done, or remaining in the House of Commons to give his approval to the principle of Dr. Fox's County Councils (Ireland) Bill. In his remarkable speech, Mr. Morley was of course very severe on Mr. Chamberlain for having said that they did not know how to govern and did not know how to resign. Whether they knew how to resign or not, they did know, he thought, how to govern ; and Mr. Morley pointed proudly to the tranquillity of Ireland on the one hand, and to the adminis- tration of the Factory Acts on the other. He declared that Mr. Chamberlain was holding up and waving the banner of Social Reform "on the box-seat of the brewer's dray." Then Mr. Morley made a pun :—" The curser of what he chooses to call New Liberalism, was himself the precursor." Mr. Morley was exceedingly wroth at the doctrine that the qovernment should appeal to the nation to overrule the Irish policy of the House of Lords, before they have done what they wish to do in the way of the futile passing of Bills through the House of Commons. Well, it is a question for them, of course, whether they want to waste time or not.
ut they know that they must waste it by taking no measure to overawe the House of Lords, and they know that if the country is with them they need not waste it, if they take their authority from the country first, and introduce their Bills afterwards. Lord Salisbury's speech at Bradford he de- nounced as " vicious and wicked claptrap."
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