On Thursday Mr. Morley delivered a politica address to the
Forest of Dean Liberals at the Town Hall, Lydney. After declaring that when people talked in the abstract and in generalities of Imperialism they were disputing about "the shadow of a jackass," he turned to what is apparently becoming with him a mental preoccupation, the Mahdi's head, and declared that he would vote no honours to any General, however brilliant or however successful, who was "answerable for an act of barbarism so deplorable and so revolting." As no act of cruelty or injustice was done to any living person, and as Lord Kitchener (who is likely to be a better judge than Mr. Morley) believed that the destruction of the Mahdi's remains was necessary in order to secure the complete overthrow of the savage and revolting tyranny known as Mahdism, we cannot profess to excite ourselves over the incident.
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