Yesterday week, Sir William Harcourt, speaking at Southampton, rallied Mr.
Chamberlain on having transformed the Radical Union into the National Liberal Union, and asked why he did not take the bull by the horns, and call it the National Tory Union at once. In old times, the Dutch found great difficulty in getting into the Chinese markets, and could only obtain admission on condition of blaspheming and trampling upon the emblems of their faith. That appeared to be the condition on which Radicals were to be allowed to ally themselves with Tories, said Sir William Harcourt. And that seems also to be the condition on which Liberals are allowed to ally themselves with Parnellites, Mr. Chamberlain might have replied,—for the alliance of Liberatl7nionists with Tories has at least altered the Tories much more than it has altered the Liberal Unionists, but the alliance of the Liberals with the Parnellites has altered the Liberals very much more than it has altered the Parnellites. Indeed, it has wholly revolutionised the Liberals, and has not altered the Parnellites a jot.
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