of their party the Opposition can gather but cold thf from the speeches of Mr. John Morley and Mr. Asquith who have been exhorting their constituents in Scotland. N-ither speaks on home matters in a way to touch the mind or heart of the average English elector, nor succeeds in ming more than a transient attention, loth seem agreed that the Government's stock 0 tee wenkoet spot. The abandon-foreign' policy offers the best point of ment of Armenia, the crushing of Greece, and the entanglements with the Northwest frontier tribes of India are well worn accusations, but they are apparently the only sticks with which it is hoped to give the government next session some effective drubbing. At his first meeting Mr. Morley was inconveniently heckled as to his attitude upon the engineering strike and was compelled to take refuge in deferring his answer. A compulsory eight hours' day is s pillhe cannot even yet bring himself to swallow though the engineering dispute raises the question in a way which cannot be evaded. Home Rule is still nailed to the mast and Canada is to be the object lesson regardless of the fact that Ireland can never be treated as anything but an integral part of the centre of the Empire,
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