Mr. Morley delivered a speech to the Manchester Reform Club
on Monday, in which he attacked Mr. Chamberlain very sharply for his speech at Sunderland ; but before addressing himself to that subject, he gave his testimonial to Mr. Parnell, dwelling on " the momentous importance of the good work he did for Ireland and the cause of reconciliation between Ireland and Great Britain." Mr. Morley's idea of good work and of reconciling work is eccentric. We should as soon think of hatred and suspicion sown broadcast, as Mr. Parnell's famous boy- cotting speech sowed them between Irishmen and Irishmen, as good work, as we should of calling the work of the Carbonari in Italy good work ; and as for reconciling England to Ireland, no man ever did more to alienate them than Mr. Parnell. When Mr. Morley turned to Mr. Chamberlain, he charged him with ignoring his own responsibility for the acts of the Government of which he was a member, and declared that years after he had belonged to that Government, he " held up his former col- leagues to obloquy and contempt" in order to serve " a paltry purpose of the moment." And this, he said, " was a hitting below the belt for which he ventured to say that they did not find a parallel in the worst times of our political history."
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