After this speech the debate became a lament on the
part of the Conservatives,—Mr. Newdegate, for instance, bewailing the- condition of the Conservative party, and calling Sir Stafford Northcote its ex-organiser (did he mean disorganiser ?). Mr. Yorke wept over the Kilmainham treaty ; Mr. Salt insisted that what Ireland wanted was "rest." Mr. Finch-Hatton expressed. his entire willingness to wait for the English franchise till Ireland was ready for it; Mr. Gorst, on the part of the Fourth Party, repudiated Mr. Chaplin ; and finally, Lord George Hamilton explained that though the Tory party were completely united as to the mischief which the Bill would do to Ireland,. they were excusably divided as to whether it was right that Great Britain should wait for the franchise till Ireland was ready, or whether Ireland should be subjected to injury rather than that Great Britain should wait. The Irish Members, of course Mr. King-Harman excepted, insisted on the necessity of putting Ireland and England under the same law, and eulogised the determination of the Government. Then the House got it- self into Committee without a division, and progress was at once reported. .
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