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T THE WEEK. HE result of Ipswich was in every respect most satisfactory and, Mr. Ganzoni's majority being over the Liberal and Socialist combined, constituted a crushing defeat of the Government. There can be little doubt that the actual majority-532-exceeded the most sanguine forecasts of Unionists on the spot, and we venture to think that the size of the majority was, to a great extent, due to the visits of Sir Edward Carson and Mr. Lloyd George. In fact many shrewd observers knew that Mr. Masterman had no chance of winning the seat after Mr. George had given another of his well-known exhibitions of "trusting the people." It would not be exaggerating in the least to say that Mr. George sneaked in and out of Ipswich as if he were thoroughly aware of the loathing he inspires in the victims of his essays in social reform. If his speech was an insult to the intelligence of Ipswich, his method of entering and leaving the town was hardly less insulting. We should think that in future Mr. George's services at election-time will be shunned by his colleagues. Even the Radicals are beginning to understand that he is a most undesirable Jonah; and when this recognition of an indubitable fact dawns upon the Prime Minister it will be overboard with Mr. George. Mr. Asquith is not the kind of skipper to carry unremunerative cargo. FIRST GLANCE AT NEW BOOKS essential tyranny of the despotism which the iniquitous Parliament Act has created; and were it not for the intense gravity of the situation in Ireland we could find it in our heart to welcome the demonstration. In the end it can have but one result-the consignment of the bulk of the party to the wilderness in which Mr. Masterman is still disconsolately wandering. THE Home Rule Bill has passed its third reading, and the Amending Act is still in the air. It may be noted in passing that the final debate closed upon a note of passionate protest which augurs ill for the success of the first Nationalist Parliament, even if the Ulster question is settled by the indefinite exclusion of the North. We do not think that any better reason could be found for objecting to Home Rule at all than that the Nationalists themselves are bitterly divided; and Mr. William O'Brien's fiery attack upon Mr. Redmond is but a mild foretaste of what will assuredly happen when, if ever, the Nationalist Parliament sits in Dublin. So far as the actual passing of the third reading goes, Mr. Bonar Law's description of it as the fitting curtain of a contemptible farce accurately sums up the situation. The Commons have passed, by a majority of seventy-seven, they know not what; for until the Amending Bill appears in the House of Lords no one will know the real intentions of the Government, except that they will save both their faces and their places if their motley supporters can only be "squared." AGAINST this uncanny caution of Mr. George there was set the triumphal entry of Sir Edward Carson into Ipswich, for it was nothing less. From the moment he stepped MEANWHILE the North of Ireland is rigidly keeping the from the railway-carriage to the final words of the perora- peace. In other times, and in other circumstances, such tion of his stirring speech he was master of the situation. a phenomenon would have been inconceivable. If it were For Englishmen of all classes, and of all shades of opinion, necessary at this time of day to prove that the Protestant are able to recognise a man when they see one, and strong North is in deadly earnest, the orderliness with which it convictions strongly expressed have power to stir the most has received the news of the passing of the Home Rule sluggish. Whatever had been their views before Sir Bill would be proof enough. When we remember how Edward's visit, the voters of Ipswich knew when he had slight a spark has before now set the factions fighting, the spoken that the Home Rule Bill and the Ulster opposition wonderful calm of the Ulster cities through this time of were burning realities, and the result of this stress is grimly significant, and shows how small a thing knowledge was the handsome majority by which they is the mere passing of a Bill when once the final issue of returned Mr. Ganzoni. Our Radical contemporaries a matter has been deferred to a more august arbitrament. continue to assure us that the Insurance Act played its The Ulster Volunteers have proved their metal, for the part in the election. Of course it did. But the policy of calm in which Northern Ireland has been wrapt during the Government is all of a piece, and the interrelation of the last few days is the calm of a stern self-repression, of its measures is absolute. Whether it has dealt with the a discipline far deeper than mere military routine. SuperWelsh Churchman, the Ulster Loyalist, or the working- ficially it might seem that the Government would be in classes of the country, in each case it has demonstrated the worse case had passion been loosened; but reflection tells us that there is nothing quite so terrible as temper in an could bear; indeed, in responding for the House of Commons, iron control. NOTHING Could have been in better taste than the Speaker's disclaimer of any offensive interpretation of the expression he was betrayed into, which seemed at the time. to imply that Mr. Bonar Law was responsible for the incidents of Thursday last. Mr. Lowther enjoys the respect of the whole House, irrespective of party, and at the time his apparent, but obviously undeserved, rebuke of Mr. Bonar Law was provocative of as much surprise as annoyance. His frank explanation and ready apology were such that no anger could possibly linger, and with Mr. Bonar Law's happy acceptance of both the incident closed, as all such incidents must close when the protagonists happen to be gentlemen. When we remember some recent Parliamentary apologies that were but aggravations of the original offence, we could wish that those guilty of them would study and lay to heart Mr. Lowther's honest and graceful speech, and, to use a now historic expression, "mend their manners.” THE result of the various elections in which third candidates, Labour or Socialist, or both, have made their appearance is vastly perturbing to the Liberal Party; and in answer to a question put to him by Mr. Cowan, member for East Aberdeenshire, Mr. Asquith has said that he really cannot say more than that this matter is engaging the serious attention of His Majesty's Government. For once we can accept the Prime Minister's word, without any reservation whatever, as representing the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We are sure this matter is engaging their serious attention, and we are equally sure that if they could possibly see their way to gerrymander our methods of election so that the Lib.-Lab. candidates shall always get in, they would stick at nothing to achieve their object. Happily their time is too short, or their fertility in mischief might overcome even the only danger they fear-the expression of the will of the electors, whom they hate, and fear, and despise. Mr. Lloyd GEORGE's fruitless dangling of his refreshing fruit before the eyes of Ipswich seems to show that the game is played out. As Mr. Jowett, the chairman of the National Independent Labour Party, has rightly said, Mr. George's idea of social reform is to feed the dog with its own tail. It is a homely simile, and if it lacks the pious picturesqueness of "rare and refreshing fruits," it nevertheless possesses the saving grace of truth. Mr. George really has been feeding the dog on its own tail, and the dog is only just becoming aware of the mean trick of which it has been the victim. As Lord Milner said at the Oxford meeting of the British Covenanters' League, the only possible excuse for all that the Government has done is that "Ministers are hopelessly at sea, are tired out, bewildered, and overwrought, and hardly know themselves what they are saying or doing." This however is more an explanation than an excuse; but happily the fact remains that, tired as Ministers are, the country is more tired still, and Mr. George's motto, if he is wise, will be "Cave canem," for he has tried it on him in vain. he implored his hearers to believe that wisdom and moderation were not to be found in one political party alone, meaning no doubt to imply that really his party was not so black as nearly everybody present had doubtless supposed. APROPOS of Lord Kitchener's report on the government and economic condition of Egypt and the Sudan, we have scen it stated that the Government made a wise choice when they appointed him Agent and Consul-General of Egypt. Of course there can be no question but that Lord Kitchener is unquestionably the strongest and most able administrator Egypt has had since the occupation. But we decline to give the Government any credit for that. If ever an appointment was an accident of circumstances this was the appointment. "Wise choice" forsooth! when, as everyone knows, the Government's one and only object was to get the most able-and plain-spoken-of administrators out of the way, while Lord Haldane and other egregious amateurs played at soldiers with the British Army. Lord Kitchener's report is as usual a simple, straightforward, and lucid statement of good work well done. Notably is this the case as regards the Sudan, which, in spite of poor floods and scanty rains, is "paying its way "; this, if our memory does not deceive us, Lord Morley once demonstrated, to the satisfaction of himself, could never happen. Very interesting are Lord Kitchener's notes on the various reforms in the administration which have been and are still being effected. It is a record of which any administrator may be proud. It is difficult to understand precisely upon what principle the sentences in the Canteen case were allotted by the presiding Judge. If the minor military officials were sufficiently punished by being bound over, and the civilians by the various fines inflicted, the utter ruin of Colonel Whitaker involved in his sentence to six months' imprisonment is surely out of all proportion to his misconduct. We have already demonstrated, in another case, our utter detestation of the acceptance of tips by public servants, and it may well be that Colonel Whitaker's punishment is not as excessive as it seems; our contention however that it is out of all proportion to those of the other defendants cannot, we think, be gainsaid. Mr. Justice Darling's remarks with regard to Lord Saye and Sele, we should imagine, cannot very well be passed over by the Government or by the party to which he belongs. It is clearly a matter upon which that high court of honour, the National Liberal Club, should adjudicate. Under the present circumstances, and under the other circumstances, which we need not particularise, a “joy day" is clearly indicated. If a banquet should be given by the club to the Comptroller of the Household, we sincerely trust that the persons in whose honour the precedent meal was arranged will endeavour to attend. IN Mr. Gustav Hamel, of whose sad fate there can now, we fear, be little doubt, the theory and practice of flight have been deprived of one of their ablest exponents, and the world is the poorer by the loss of a man whose modesty was as great as his courage. It is pathetic to note that Mr. Hamel, in the book which was only recently reviewed in our columns, commented on the fact that fatal accidents were too often due to the under-estimation of risks that had before A MINISTRY is indeed in a parlous condition when its proved fatal. It has been conjectured that, as in the case of members cannot even dine out without having their peace Mr. Grace, in his flight toward Dover Mr. Hamel must have of mind, to say nothing of their digestions, disturbed by turned eastwards in the fog, and, missing the Forelands, have unkind innuendoes. Thus poor Mr. Hobhouse, dining with flown out over the North Sea until his petrol was exhausted. the London Chamber of Commerce, had to sit and listen to Wednesday's false report that he had been picked up Sir Felix Schuster's eulogy of the House of Lords, in which, by a fishing-boat was so in harmony with this possibility the vice-president of the Chamber explained, is to be found that when the time passed on and the rumour lacked “all that had been proved to be the best in the national life confirmation the public disappointment was acute. -civil, military, art, commerce, and literature." This was bad enough, but when Sir Felix went on to describe the Mr. Charles BRIGHT's paper on the Administration of dignity with which the Lords conduct their debates, and Imperial Telegraphs, read before the Colonial Section of the the variety of knowledge and experience these debates Royal Society of Arts recently, deserves, but is not likely reveal, it must have been almost more than Mr. Hobhouse to receive, the attention of the Government. Mr. Bright, |