Lord Granville's hearty loyalty to Mr. 'Gladstone in regard to
the Home-rule policy is admirable after its kind, though we cannot help thinking that it proceeds quite as much from his heart as from his head. At Rochester, on Monday, he made an enthusiastic speech in support of the Home-rule policy, and declared that the great magician's wand had never been waved with more effect than during the previous week's journey in the West. Lord Granville says that he has always been an optimist in politics, and that he is now at least as sanguine as he has ever been. The Gladstonians, he thinks, resemble the " Bulls" of the Stock Exchange, and the Conservatives the "Bears." The former always expect a rise, and the latter a fall, in the prospects of England. Lord Granville attacked the action of the Government in relation to the sugar-bounties, and reverted with the sort of satisfaction with which a bankrupt refers to an asset that has never been doubted for a moment, to Lord Herschell's speech of nearly a year ago on the Parnell Commission Bill. But what is much more surprising than Lord Granville's gallantry in standing by Mr. Gladstone and Lord Herschell, he actually declared himself, in a sense, a disciple of Mr. O'Brien. At least, he professed himself a convert to the wisdom of Mr. O'Brien's refusal to wear prison clothes. After that, we shall almost expect to find Lord Granville declaring himself a disciple of Mr. Wilfrid Blunt's and Arabi Pasha's Egyptian policy, or following Mr. Cunning- ham Graham into a charge on the police stationed round Trafalgar Square.
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