The two most remarkable speeches of the week are Mr.
Goschen's reply yesterday week at Edinburgh to Mr. Glad- stone's first and most important Scotch speech, and Lord. Randolph Churchill's very clever speech on Saturday to his. constituents at Paddington. Mr. Goschen dwelt upon Mr. Gladstone's declaration that any Home-rule Bill given to Ireland shall be of a kind which England and Scotland might, if they chose, claim for themselves. He quoted the threats fulminated against all Irishmen who had declined to join in the "Plan of Campaign," and which it was promised that the Home-rule Government of Ireland would make good, and showed how evicted tenants who had entered into the "Plan of Campaign" were in certain cases so well off, that one of them had even entered a horse for the Curragh races, after his eviction. He illustrated the temper of the Irish Party by their peremptory demand for an amnesty to the dynamiters, as if the dastardly dynamiters were ordinary 4‘ political" offenders ; and he showed how strangely Mr. Gladstone had misrepresented Mr. Balfour's Irish Local Government Bill in asserting that all power of control had been taken away from the popularly elected County Councils, and handed over to Joint Committees which would certainly be Tory ; whereas the truth was that no such power was taken away in relation to the expenditure of annual rates, but only in relation to capital expenditure over and above the current expenditure of the year. In a word, Mr. Goschen went over the whole ground of Mr. Gladstone's Edinburgh speech, and replied to it in a most masterly manner, para- graph by paragraph, and almost sentence by sentence. We do not doubt for a moment that Mr. Goschen's speech affected sensibly the Edinburgh polls.
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