The St. James's Hall demonstration against the Govern- ment on
Wednesday was much more violent than weighty. Mr. Morley wound himself up into talking a good deal of nonsense. Indeed, no one who had followed the story of the reiterated challenges in Parliament to have the Times charges dealt with, would recognise the facts of the case at all in Mr. Morley's un-Morleyish declamation. Referring to Tennyson's line about the French Revolution, "the red fool. furyof the Seine," he said, "Commend me to the blue fool. furyof Pall Mall," to which it would be a sufficiently adequate rejoinder,--" Commend me to the green fool-fury of Northum- berland." Mr. Morley cooled down, however, towards the end of his speech, and when he had launched all his unpleasant adjectives, ended with, "let us not blame merely the Times, or the Government," &c., for the fault is the fault of the nation." Well, if so, Hr. Morley's speech ought to have been very different from what it was. Mr. Parnell, after considering Irish outrages as "justified and excused" by English misgovernment, declared that the time for outrage had passed away, and that the time for peaceful constitutional agitation had come. We hope so with all our hearts. But if he thinks so, why does he not openly take shame to himself for having instigated the
practice which has caused more misery and crime in Ireland than any of his predecessors, from Emmet to Smith O'Brien, had instigated amongst them ?
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