Tae Graphic congratulates its renders that during the first week in May the British public had been enjoying quite a good time," in that they had heard comparatively little about the Home Rule Bill, "and that is about as pleasant a piece of fortune as can, under existing circumstances, fall to the lot of the mass of electors." It continues:—
On Monday the whole controversy will be reopened, Of the instructions which have hitherto been proposed, only a small number will probably be admitted to be in order but when these have been disposed of, the amendments to the Bill will than enough of scope for disc the greater part of what remai Session. Meanwhile, the unmistakeable pleasure with which most people have appreciated the recent silence of the Home Rulers may. be taken as a very significant indication of the tendency of national opinion. If the question had been one which really aroused the enthusiasm of Liberals, can it be supposed that they would have allowed the interval between the second reading and the opening of proceedings in Committee to pass so quiet ly? There would have been overflowing meetings in every important town, and we should have heard all the old talk about the the event of its daring to stand in the way mending or ending of the House of Lords in of the fulfilment of the people's hopes. Those
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