29 JULY 1893, Page 2

Mr. Gladstone's irregular reply on Tuesday, after the general discussion

had ceased, when he was able to single out Mr. Cham- berlain, only because Mr. Chamberlain had made a proposal to get rid of the six years' delay in making final arrangements,— a delay which Mr. Chamberlain thought purely mischievous,— was simply to the effect that Mr. Chamberlain is an advocatus diaboli, whose only object is to run down the Home-rule Bill at any price, and who exaggerates and caricatures every flaw in it so enormously, that as criticisms his speeches are simply worthless.