NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TN the House of Lords on Wednesday Lord Morley moved the second reading of the Amending Bill. Lord Morley seldom snakes a speech without telling quotations, and very striking from his own point of view were those which he gave from Cromwell mid from Grattan. The essential thing about the speech, however, was that it left the problem open, and described the Bill as the best opportunity for discovering what amount of common ground exists in Parliament for attaining peace. Lord Morley ended with a word as to the National Vollua- teera. According to him, they show, at any rate, that it is an illusion to suppose that the Mali people have lost their faith in Home Rule. We are not so sure. No doubt the Volunteers show that the Irish people have not lost their faith in National- ism, or, if you will, Separation, but we cannot regard that as a 'sign of faith in Parliamentarianism or in the Home Rule Bill, which is what we presume Lord Morley means by Home Rule.
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