5 FEBRUARY 1881, Page 2

Sir Stafford Northcote followed, in a speech of great gener-

osity and force, supporting Mr. Gladstone, with a touch of personal enthusiasm that was very noble in the Leader of the Opposition, and limiting his criticisms to the suggestions needful, as he thought, for the safeguarding of legitimate minorities. In the general discussion which followed, in which some of the Irish Liberals, Mr. Newdegate, and Mr. Dillwyn took a prominent part, Mr. Cowen alone engaging in a new philippic against the Government, the greatest desire to secure unanimity was shown, and the resolution, as we give it below, was at last passed unanimously.