Sir Michael Hicks-Beach made a very sensible speech at Leamington
on Thursday, when he dealt with Mr. Parnell's representations as to Home-rule, and remarked that if Mr. Parnell was really as anxious about giving an industrial stimulus to Ireland as he pretended to be, he was acting very unfairly in not supporting and proposing to amend the Government Bills for those purposes, which he always manages to get his party to obstruct. Sir Michael did not see any difficulty in amending the constitution of the Irish Board of Works, if it could be made to satisfy better the views of the Irish Party, by receiving some more popular elective element. But the Irish Party never ask for such changes, and, indeed, do not really desire the policy which they say they would inaugurate themselves, to be pursued successfully by the present Government. We do not suppose that Mr. Parnell will take up Sir Michael Beach's challenge. It would he inconvenient for him to do so.
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