On Monday, Sir George Trevelyan delivered a speech at Acre.
fair, about two miles from Ruabon, in which he made a sharp attack on the House of Lords, asserting that it is of no use for Irish Members to introduce into the House of Commons reforms which the Lords make a role of rejecting. He placed upon the Government the whole responsibility of the ill-feeling caused in Wales by the tithe agitation, on the remarkable ground that the Government would not find a day for Mr. Dillwyn's anti- State Church resolution,—as if the discussion of an abstract reso- lution of that kind could have had the least conceivable effect on the tithe agitation. But Sir George Trevelyan's cue through. out all these speeches has been to hold the Government responsible for everything in the political world which he thinks evil. They are hardly speeches which will increase the respect felt for Sir George Trevelyan amongst moderate men. They are the speeches of an agitator—who has been a statesman.
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