As to what Lord Lansdowne's advice will be this may
be gathered from certain expressions contained in his speech of Thursday night:—
Surely, whatever opportunities there may be afterwards—and the noble viscount [Lord Morley] knows better than I do whether there will be such opportunities—for oonsideting whether any of those proposals of ours should be pressed or not— for me or for any one else, on the occasion of the third reading, to announce that we were ready to throw overboard any part of the changes which we have deliberately introduced into the Bill would be, to my the least of it, a very unusual Parliamentary manoeuvre. But I am quite ready to say one thing to the noble viscount, and that is that in our view some, at all events, of the amendments which we have introduced into the Bill are so essential that we should certainly not be prepared to recede from them in substance so long as we remain free agents."
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