To this speech Sir W. Harcourt replied by congratulating Lord
Randolph on having proved the infinite divisibility of matter by the dissolution of the Fourth Party into its elements, and on giving his final kick in the spring to the very measure which he had spent all the previous autumn in demanding from the Government. The Bill they were passing, said Sir W. Har- court, was very like that administered by the Duke of Marl- borough, " if not in a God-granted Administration, at least in an Administration from which the Lord had delivered us." Sir W. Harcourt then enlarged on his old theme, the close alliance between the Irish Land-leaguers and the American Fenians, and protested that Liberals everywhere detested and repudiated Communism and Fenianism. Mr. Forster having insisted that the Irish Irreconcilables do not represent Ireland, and that Irishmen's loyalty to each other, oven when engaged in criminal enterprises, is a ground of hope for the future,—the third reading was passed by 250 to 28, and the Bill by 236 to 26.
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