Mr. Morley was in high spirits this day week, when
he addressed the Hackney Reform Club on the subject of the day. He crowed very loud over the humiliation of the Govern- ment in accepting the policy of Mr. Parnell on the laud ques- tion, while taking powers from Parliament to pat down the National League, of which Mr. Parnell is the head. Lord Salisbury had utterly denounced at first any revision of judicial rents :—" You have got in April Lord Salisbury rejecting the policy which in May he accepts. You have got him in June again rejecting the policy which he had accepted in May, and you have him in July accepting the policy which he had rejected in Jane. You know when Romeo says to Juliet that he swears by 'yonder blessed moon,' Juliet says :— Oh ! swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb.'
I think that the Tory landlords will think that Lord Salisbury's oaths to them are oaths taken by the 'inconstant moon.'" Yes, it is all true, and is a great lesson on the inconstancy of politicians. Mr. Morley himself has had no little experience in the same direction. How long did he not vainly cling to the exclusion of the Irish Members from Westminster, which he now gives up P How long did he not vainly cling to the Land Bill of the late Government, which he now gives up P The active stone-throwing of those who live in glass houses is hardly wise, for with the judgment they mete, it will certainly be measured to them again.
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