Waew a Bill passes its second reading in the House of Commons, the meaning is that the House affirms the principle of the only leaving the details to be settled in Committee. "The warning of the Old Blue" Gladstone in Tenniel's cartoon in Punch: "Now, my boys,—we must row a quicker stroke if we're to win!" was evidently taken by the Home Rule party, and it is now gravely proposed by Me, Goldwin Smith, that © the Oppositi should take no part in the discussion of the Bill in Committee, but leave the various sections of the Home Rule party to fight over it, and trust to the Lords éo throw it out; advice which, however, is not likely be taken. Meanwhile preparations for resisting Home Rule, if the Bill ever passes, are going on in Ulster, and reported that n guarantee fund, or war-chest," of a bullion sterling has been already' pro-stirring debate in the House ion of Uganda, only 46 voting boucher against 968 votes for the retention of the territory. Writing on the subject the Times says It is very easy to raise peddling objections to any kind of forward policy in East' Africa, Tt was just as easy to raise them against the colonisation of America or Australia, No new country pours immediate wealth into the lap of explorers, and no nation reaps until it has sown, But the potentialities of new markets and new sources of wealth are in Africa in other continents where successfully developed. Mr, tated the plain truth when he that the abandonment of the task we taken in hand would be a reversal of the general policy of this country. Colonisation and conquest of barbarism form the secular policy not of Governments or politicians, but of the English people, Whatever malicious analysis may make of them, the motives under which a great race acts from age to ago for the accomplishment of such results England has to show are beyond the disparagement of doctrinaires, and beyond the control of pusillanimous politicians.
Mr. Chamberlain not very happily reminded the House, that it was for Uganda that Lord Salisbury gave up Heligoland. we should think, be the Daily Netes:~
It might have been better for this country if no Englishman had ever gone near Uganda at all, But we cannot revoke the past. tracted obligations to the people of Uganda, Rigatly of wrongly the late Government con-of which the House of Commons approved, and which, therefore, as Mr. Chamberlain contended, bind their successors, If Uganda had been deserted, and the missionaries had deen massacred, the disgrace of the Government would have been the immediate, and a costly expedition the ultimate, result.
If Mr, Gladstone's government roused a storm of opposition all over the Country with their Direct Veto Bill, thus making what even some of their supporters consider serious mistake, they have retrieved themselves for the time at any rate by their Parish Councils Bill, which all parties in the House hailed with delight, and which even the Times considers deserves to be passed with some amendment in Committee. It is " Bill, according to the Daily News, ich amounts to " peaceful revolution, which will affect every rural district in England, aid which will do more than any other mesure introduced this session to make the masses believe that the government are in earnest,... There i no imperial or parliamentary reform to becom-pared in importance with the revivification of roral life, and the re-introdyotion of
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