Sir John Kerslake, the Attorney-Gmeral, has also addressed his constituents
in the same city, but his speech was of the strictly partizan kind, and he descended to the assertion that if the Liberals obtained power upon the Irish Church question they would "per- form a juggling trick," and "say that it was really so difficult to appropriate the revenues that they would not go on with it any longer." Does Sir John Kerslake really believe that or not? If he does not, he is descending to a trick scarcely worthy of an electioneering attorney ; and if he does, he is incompetent to understand either the character of the statesman he opposes or the party he is resisting. Upon the question of expenditure he was more sensible, quitting the usual excuse, the necessity of re- arming the forces, in a tangible form. Were we, he bays, to do with- out Sniders, or without the soldiers to be attracted by extra pay? No; but Mr. Gladstone would have paid for both out of savings.
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