advices from England Preautuinn politi-Ly the ten days or so preceding our last
cal movements began. Mr. Chamberlain, and Lord Randolph Churchill on the side of the Unionists, and Mr. John Morley on that of the Gladstonians or Separatists had opened with a heavy cannonade of each others forces and opinions. Sir William Harcourt had also made one of his usual speeches, to which, however, we do not propose to refer further. Lord Randolph Churchill began by addressing a large Conservative meeting at Whitby, which, notwithstanding the opposition of some peers and local leaders, passed off every satisfactorily. His Lonlship found that the characteristic of the present parliament, in its first session, vas been the marked assertion of the principles, the first principles of constitutional government in a country where the party system hay the froest possible play. He finds in this parliament a marked resolution to sustain law and order, Whigs and lories, Radicals and Liberals have marched shoulder to shoulder from battlefield to battlefield, resisting a common enemy. In these and other sonorous phrases his Lordship praised "the first English parliament in which the whole mass of the people of the United Kingdom has been fully and fairly represented," and which was elected without any stain of bribery and corruption. In discussing the Trish question he pointed out that during the session Mr. Burnell had been content to occupy a secondary position, and that: from beginning to end Mr. Gladstone had been the real leader of the Nationalists; he counselled the Government to grapple with the National League and to remember the great military maxim—to pursue vigorously after the battle and rout the enemy. On the Irish Land question he advised caution; he dealt vigorously with the extravagance of the public Departments and drew loud and long continued cheering from his large audience by one -significant sentence. He said that the permanent officials are Jearning that they are not
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