Yesterday week, at a meeting of the Council of the
East Marylebone Liberal and Radical Association, Canon Barker in the chair, Mr. Robert Peel, son of Sir Robert Peel, and grandson of the great Conservative Minister, was unanimously 'chosen to contest the division on behalf of the Gladatonians at the next General Election. A letter was read from Mr. Gladstone congratulating himself on seeing the name of Peel .associated with the Liberal cause, and " especially the cause of Ireland." " For the first time," says Mr. Gladstone, -" since the commencement of the Parliamentary struggle 'under O'Connell sixty years ago, the Irish Party, bent on a constitutional and effective scheme of Home-rule, is looking to Great Britain to pronounce judgment in the contest between it and a minority of its members seceding under Mr. Parnell. The Liberals of Great Britain, who have themselves since 1886 had to resist and overcome a similar secession, will not doubt on which side they are to recognise the name and true titles of the party, and its honourable traditions of resistance to wrong." In other words, the Gladstonians who have faithfully followed their leader when he completely and suddenly reversed his own course, are exhorted to admire the Anti-Parnellites for not following theirs.
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