3 AUGUST 1889, Page 2

Lord Hartington's speech was worthy of his masculine good sense,

and reduced the issue to its true insignificance. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, however, was unusually heady, and called all his opponents a " swell-mob." Mr. Goschen closed the debate with a most convincing and weighty reply, in which he said very truly that if only the constituencies could themselves have heard the matter argued out as it had been argued out in the House of Commons, they would none of theni have been convinced by such arguments as formed the stuff of Mr. Brad- laugh's and Sir Wilfrid Lawson's speeches. Nevertheless, as we have already pointed out,—the constituencies, unfor- tunately, not being present,—the extreme Radicals recorded the largest vote for a shabby throne, of which we have ever had experience in this country.