Lord Harlington spoke at Grimsby on Tuesday, and explained that
he had never said that he should be willing to concede Home-rule for Scotland any more than for Ireland, since he thought it altogether a retrograde and mischievous step ; but only this, that if, contrary to his own advice and his own vote, they should ever be compelled by any eager desire of Scotland for Home-rule (in the existence of which at present he evidently did not at all believe) to concede Home-rule to Scotland, he should not have any of the kind of fear of its mischievous effects which he entertains, and necessarily enter- tains, in the case of Ireland. With regard to Ireland's acceptance of Mr. Gladstone's limited measure in 1886, he admitted that Mr. Parnell had expressed his belief that " so far as it is possible for a nation to accept a measure cheerfully, fully, gladly, and without reservation, as a final settlement, the Irish people had accepted the measure ;" but Lord Harting- ton also showed that Mr. Parnell himself had disclaimed any right to dictate to the Irish nation what its destiny should be, and that other speakers had gone the full length of saying that Ireland would not be ruled by strangers at all,—Englishmen, of course, being the strangers alluded to. Lord Hartington admitted that what Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Parnell now de- mand is not in any sense independence for Ireland, but he declined altogether to admit this in relation to the demands of the Irish-American party, to whom the Irish leaders are now going, hat in hand, for subscriptions, and to whom they look in a great measure for the policy they pursue.
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