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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 9, 25 June 1886, Page 5

Hartington on the affection of the electors, that from the very commencement, his Conservative opponent knew he was leading a forlorn hope. What a cbaDge from then to now 1 Then the noble Marquis was omnipotent, now he has failed and with every circumstance of humiliation, to ilicit from hiß former supporters even the ordinary courtesy of a vote of confidence. The result of this meeting has been to carry consternation into the ranks of the Whig eeceders. Last week they boasted at the Reform Club that they could command 70 Liberal votes on the second reading. Their .most sanguine hopes now do not place the number above 30, wmilarly the Chamberlainite& are daily decreasing in number. It is an open secret that in Birmingham itself Radical opinion is beginning to run unpleasantly high against the modern Joseph Surface .—Englishmen love straightforwardness, (and Mr. Chamberlain's continued expressions of devotion and loyalty to Mr. Gladstone coupled with insidions and deadly attacks upon his proposal ß are daily disgusting numbers of his whilom supportars. On the whole, things are going well for Ireland. The enemies of Home Rule are discredited and discouraged. Its friends are gaining in number and in confidence, and the universal impression here is that the second reading of the Bill is secure and that before eighteen months have elapsed, and probably much sooner, the world will witness the re-opening of the old House on College Grean. J. B. Redmond.