Lord Herschell in his speech quizzed Lord R. Churchill for
his incognito travels, the incognito being, ho said, quite unneces- sary to secure him from being the object of too much attention on the part of foreign statesmen, and laid down as his role for the solution of the Irish problem that " the English people were not bound wittingly to imperil their own safety," even for the purpose of satisfying Irish sentiment. That is just what Mr. Stansfeld's speech, delivered on Monday at Bristol, seems to us to render doubtful; for he put the moral duty of satisfying the Irish sentiment of nationality so much in the front of the battle that one would have gathered that he held that to be the one condition of a right solution,—the guarantees for British safety being of quite secondary importance. We wish the British Home-rulers would make quite clear to themselves and others what, on this primary point, their position really is.
