But Mr. Goschen's best answer to Sir W. Harcourt was
contained in the admirable speech at Oldham on Thursday. In that speech Mr. Goschen reminded his naulienc.e of the judgment of the civilised world to which Mr. Gladstone had appealed as unanimous on his side, and said : " Dear old civi- lised world! I wonder what the civilised world is saying now. I 'wonder whether the civilised world is at present engaged in turning its clear and impartial eyes upon the election which is proceeding at Cork," where the police are protecting the body- guard of Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Dillon from the missiles of the Cork mob. He speculated whether it was Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Morley, or Sir W. Harcourt, or none of the three, who had drawn -up a party programme which shows " how many ancient insti- tutions shall be given for one Home-rule Bill, and how many Home-rule Bills shall be given for one majority." It was the policy of the Opposition not simply to relax the union between the separate nationalities of which the United Kingdom is com- posed, but to relax the union between the different classes of the people, or, as Mr. Gladstone puts it, between the classes and the masses ; while the policy of the Government was a policy of -unity in all cases, a policy of which the object would be not only to keep up the close fusion of nationalities in one Kingdom, but of all classes in one people.
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