The question of the Liberal leadership has. once more been brought on to the table. Lord Rosebery is to address a meeting at Edinburgh on the Ist of November under the auspices of the Liberal ander Black, a has made his invitation to that meeting the ground for a gallant attempt to "draw" the ex-Premier on the subject of his present re-Nations to the leader of the Liberal Party in the Commons. Mr. Black, in a letter to Lord Rosebery, suggested that the {noble Earl's declaration of "definite separation" from Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman "only applied to a phase of controversy now gone by; " and he pro ceeded to. put some very straight questions to Lord Rosebery. If Sir Henry were called upon to form a Ministry, would Lord Rosebery decline to serve 0:1 it? Or if Lord Rosebery were called upon to form a Ministry would he invite Sir Henry and his friends to join it? Lord Rosebery, however, refused to be drawn. In what respect, he asks, has the situation changed since he wrote the famous letter in which he declared himself to be outside Sir Henry's "tabernacle?" "I adhere," ho continued, "to the policy of the Chesterfield speech. I believe it to embody the only practical and sensible policy for the Liberal party. Sir Henry banned and condemned the policy. Has Sir Henry withdrawn the ban or condemnation? If so the situation is changed. If not, it has not." And he declines to commit himself to the course whi-h he would take in a hypothetical case.
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