Mr. Dillwyn—in many respects a typical Radical—made a vigorous speech
to his constituents at Swansea last week, in which he severely criticised the Government. Financially nothing could be looser, he said, than their revision of the rapidly- growing Estimates,—especially the Civil Service Estimates,--and he reiterated his conviction that unless these Estimates were carefully revised by a special Parliamentary Committee, they could not be controlled by Parliament at all, and could not be effectively controlled by the Government. He spoke of the unbusiness-like way in which the legislative measures of this Government were presented to Parliament, and the hurry in which they were driven through at the fag-end of the Session. He described the manner of the negotiation of the Treaty of Berlin as thoroughly underhanded and unworthy, and declared that it had annihilated the independence of Turkey in Europe ; while the Anglo-Turkish Convention, if carried out, would annihilate that independence in Asia. And he condemned, in the most trenchant manner, the attempt of the present Prime Minister to exalt the prerogative of the Crown at the cost of the Parliamentary system. The resolution of confid- -ence in Mr. Dillwyn was carried with the utmost enthusiasm, only one person voting against it. Evidently Swansea can boast but few Jingoes.
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