BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 151, 22 July 1901, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE LIBERAL SPLIT. IMPORTANT SPEEOH BY LORD ROSV BSKHY. PRR PilEiS ASSOCIATION. • Rui eived 2 \ 8.7 p.m. London, July 19. Lord Roseberry, upenkicg "at the Oity Liberal Olub, described Mr. Labouchere's meeting at Queens Hall as a lunatic reform club, and said the proceedings were a piece of organised, hypocrisy, • ■ Received 21, 4.40 pro. London, July 20. Lord Roiebery's speech justified the) opportuneness of hig latter. The schism : s partly traceable far less to It iuh than j Imperial questions, and dated from the | murder of General Gordon. Could any pu-ty nspiriagto the confidence of the I people maintain en open miud on the [question which stabbsd at the very heart of the Empire. If sound on the | question of the Empire the Liberals* would be able to proceed with domestic reform, for which the country was ripe. He hoped for such a par y, freed, from entangling alliances, pus *d from all anti nut'onal elements, und cooiprisisg some of the Unionists. Meanwhile, owing to divisions, he still prefericd to p'.ough hi* furrow alone, but btfore ha reached the end of the furrow he wouid potsibly not be a'ons. li;e speech was received with enthusiastic cheers.

Both letter and speech have caused a tremendous sensation. The Liberals believe Lord Rosebory contemplates establishing a democratic Imprialiat tarty. At the Asquith banquet he made comparatively the same speech, being still under the influence of possible compromise, it was chiefly restricted to generalisations. He declared 'the Imperialists were able to hold their own equally easy inside or euteide the Liberal Party, which lecognised the Empira was worth living and dying for.