3 DECEMBER 1887, Page 2

Lord Hartington's speech was in the same sense. He held

that boycotting in Ireland and obstructing the deliberations of the British Parliament were practically one and the same policy, the policy of rendering the existing situation desperate, and reducing unto surrender to the Nationalist Party, as a garrison is reduced by famine. If the Unionists are to oppose this effectively in England, they can only succeed through the hearty co-opera- tion of the Irish Unionists on Irish soil; and for toilsome and daily efforts on the part of Irish Unionists in organising this resistance, Lord Hartington made a most eloquent and effective appeal.