Sir Henry James made a very effective speech at Bury
on Wednesday. On his curious testimony to the vehement and persistent effort of the Gladstonian leaders and Parliamentary followers to unseat him, which he had resisted without any aid at all, except that of his own local supporters, and the evidence it seems to afford of the special hostility with which the Liberal Unionists are regarded by the Government and their party, we have said enough elsewhere. But we may add here that Sir Henry James availed himself of Mr. Asquith's statement that Mr. Morley is more popular in Ireland than any living Irishman, to remark that that is just what he would expect, on the ground that, in a nation divided, as Ireland is, into two camps, the rule of a fair and impartial outsider, like Mr. Morley, is likely to be a much juster rule than that of an Irishman of either of the two camps. For himself, Sir Henry James took his stand plainly on the ground that it is utterly mischievous and dangerous to have more than one Parliament and more than one Administration in the United Kingdom.. No Unionist can improve upon that fundamental principle.
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