THE LIBERAL LEADERSHIP.
[To Tar EDITOR or Tan ..Srnoriros.1
Sin,—While I was reading your articles on "The Succession to the Liberal Leadership," I could not help recalling a remark made to me a few weeks since by a friend who is not merely a Glad- Etonian, but an experienced Member of Parliament who speaks from the centre of the Gladstonian camp.
"After Gladstone," he said, "if Home-rule be not carried by that time, we shall hear no more of it. We all know that." Now, if it be true that Home-rule, as a critical question, cannot survive Mr. Gladstone, surely we need feel no great anxiety about the future leadership of the party. Home-rule being out of the way, the party will come together again of its own accord, and by a force stronger than that of gravity itself, the leader- ship must then fall into hands which are perfectly able to lead.
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