Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Bright addressed their constituents at Birmingham
on Tuesday. Mr. Chamberlain made a good point, in answer to Sir Stafford Northcote's warnings on the Greek question, by quoting Lord Beaconsfield's boast that Europe, at Berlin, had given to the Greeks the opportunity of an accession of territory greater than that obtained by any of the " rebellious provinces," though it now appears that, accord- ing to the new version of Lord Salisbury and Sir Stafford Northcote, the Greeks obtained nothing at all at Berlin, except an empty, formal intercession with Turkey, which nobody intended to follow up. The subject of Ireland Mr. Cham- berlain left to Mr. Bright, only appealing to the Irish,—the last people in the world to be moved to give way by the piteous appeals of a party not strong enough to dictate,—to refrain from " violence of deed and word which every honest man and every good citizen must condemn." The rest of Mr.•Chamber- lain's speech was very sensible, especially his comment on the proposal to break to pieces the " pillar " of Liberty in Ireland, in order to preserve intact the " pillar " of Law. But it was a pity that in pleading a good cause, Mr. Chamberlain assumed the attitude of entreaty, when he should have assumed the firmer attitude of a statesman determined to insist on obtaining justice from the II ish, as well as to give justice to them.
