28 AUGUST 1886, Page 3

Mr. Gladstone's speech was not for him a remarkable one.

He enlarged greatly on Lord Salisbury's suggestion that where the judicial rent turned out too high, the Irish landowner should be compensated, if at all, out of the British taxpayers' contributions, and characterised that hint as one "which no power on earth, no power within these walls or beyond them, could succeed in carrying into law." He did his best to hold Lord Hartington to the suggestion of his election address, as to a strictly limited Irish Assembly, to which certain powers, and certain powers only, should be delegated, and to persuade the Government to take up such a plan. Of course, in such a plan Mr. Gladstone sees elastic material which he might be able to enlarge.