Lord Salisbury, speaking at Preston, urged that the passing of the Home Rule Bill would weaken the influence of Great Britain on every shore. This was not the time, when one remembered what was passing in Asia and the Mediterraneon, to doff our armour, and doing it at such a crisis would make us appear weaker in the eyes of foreign nations.
'THE POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT, London, 19th October.
Mr. Asquith, Secretary of State for the Home Department, speaking at Glasgow, rectified the impression made by Mr. Gladstone iv Midlothian when he intimated that Government would re-introduce Home Rule next session.
This at present, said Mr, Asquith, was not intended, though Home Rule was steadfastly kept in view, and the session would be devoted to realising the Newcastle programme,
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