On Thursday, a number of speeches were made, one by
Mr. John Morley at Sheffield, in which he discussed State intervention between capital and labour, and told Mr. Balfour that a Parliament on College Green is the only effective tonic which can restore manliness to the Irish character ; one by Mr. Healy at Dublin, in which he gave in his adhesion to Mr. Parnell as leader, and said the Irish people were not inclined "to take the cork out of the soda-water bottle just in order to see it fizz ;" and one by Sir Henry James at Airdrie, in the Falkirk district, in which he insisted very powerfully that, while the Gladstonians assert that they are going to safe- guard the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament, they mean nothing but that they are going to maintain an abstract right, which can hardly be asserted practically except under the most exceptional circumstances, to interfere with what they take credit for empowering Irishmen to do in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred for themselves. In one word, if they keep their promise, they assert no real supremacy, and they certainly do intend to keep their promise to the Irish, and to put off the English, who insist on Parliamentary supremacy at Westminster, with a vain show.
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