Mr. Gladstone made two speeches in Cheshire, this day week,
one political and one social. In his political speech at Wirral he supported Mr. Morley, attacked Lord Salisbury for not recognising the various forms of Continental Home-rule, and especially the Hungarian and Bohemian Home-rule in Austria, and the Finnish Home-rule in Russia, and reiterated the absolute necessity of granting Irish Home-rule in order to liberate the House of Commons from the burden of Irish debates. But that is just the most disputed of all the points at issue. Our contention is, that if any form of Irish Home-rule tlkat has been hitherto suggested by Mr. Glad- stone should become law, the Supreme Parliament would be literally choiced with appeals from Ireland,--.appeals far more fiercely ditsput44 than even the worst of existing disputes between England kind Ireland. We should have Ireland pro- volting Ulster to tb# verge or beyond the verge of rebellion,
only that England might waste twice the time over Irish complaints that she wastes even now. Mr. Gladstone denies that Irish Home-rule has been carefully ignored in many of the by-elections. But does he forget that Dr. Janies, a strenuous Unionist, thought himself warranted in voting for the Gladstonian candidate in North Bucks, on the ground that Irish Home-rule was so dead as to be past any resurrec- tion, and that in county division after county division it has been frankly admitted that the less the candidate said about Irish Home-rule, the better it was for his chances P
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