5 MAY 1883, Page 3

Lord Rosebery and Mr. John Morley both made speeches of

interest, Lord Rosebery quizzing the Tories for their attempt to represent their party as the true friends of popular measures, -and Mr. John Morley insisting that England was the only great Western State which had not suffered a revolution during the 'last twenty-five years, and that she owed that immunity from revolution wholly to the steady increase of the popular power in this country. Instead of fearing agitation, Mr. Morley in- vited it, being more and more assured that it was the deficiency -of ready communication between the constituencies and the House of Commons which alone rendered the existing system of deliberate obstruction possible, not to say easy. The whole demonstration was a most impressive one.