25 JULY 1885, Page 2

Sir William Harcourt took up the cudgels when Sir Michael

Hicks-Beach sat down, and commented with great severity on the change which had come over the spirit of the Conservative dream since Mr. Parnell made his last demand of this kind last winter. "Those who were attacked and who were abandoned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer were the Judges and Juries of Ireland." "He hoped it would never be established in this country, though the honourable Member for Cork openly avowed it as his expectation,—and he did not see that the Chancellor of the Exchequer much discountenanced the notion,—that a change of Government was to open the prison doors."