Mr. Boner Law concluded his short campaign in Seotland on
Friday week at Glasgow, where be addressed a unanimous and enthusiastic meeting in St. Andrew's Hall. He began by contrasting the grave peril of the present situation in Ireland with the prosperity and peace — admitted by Nationalist and Liberal Home Rulers—of eight years ago. Turning to the rival armies in Ireland, he declared that, in a sense, the National Volunteers were the far more dangerous of the two bodies, since they had neither the restraint nor the discipline of the Ulster Volunteers, nor were they under the control of a single leader whom they trusted and revered. All the evils which had happened were foretold by Sir Edward Grey when he said that Single. ChamberGovernment in this country meant "death, disaster, and damnation." The Government were attempting something which was not only against the will of the nation, but which they knew was against the will of the nation. Their policy of drift had drawn protests from their own supporters, who were holding meetings to declare that no Government which was not prepared to enforce the law had any right to exist, but who forgot that the power of a Government rested upon the consent of the people, whom they did not dare to face.
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