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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 42, 8 February 1889, Page 7

At the Liverpool League Hall, willing testimony was borne by Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Father Nugent to tbe valuable service which the Home Rulers had rendered to the cause of education in the city. Mr. Fitzpatrick, alluding to the regis'er, said, that by the indefatigable energy of Mr. G. J. Lynskey, the solicitor and registration agent to tbe National League, the lists had been made almost as complete as they well could be, and, armed with tbe§e there was no difficulty in seeing that the Irish voters were polle 1 in large and overwhelming numbers. The Young Men's societies of the city also came in for a ■bare of commeadation, and they deserved it, for tbe members worked exceedingy bard to place the Catholic candidates well in fr.nt.

Mr. Balfour's speech at Leeds has not pleased even some of bi* friend?. The Birmingham Daily Post, which, through the influence of Mr. Chamberlain, has ceased to be an acknowledged organ of Radicalism, and has become an unwavering supporter cf the Tory Government, writes as follows on the Leeds speech :—" But though we are bound to admit that Mr. Bufour's contradictions to Mr. Gladstone* assertions are direct and weighty, and even in come cses conclusive, we can see no justification for the tone in which Mr. Balfour presumes to lecture Mr. Gladttone. The epithets with which he assails Mr. Gladstone are no more justified than is his description of the Bingley Hall meeting as a mob. We have before protested against Mr. Balfour's lamentable ltck of taste and temper. Those who most admire his courage and persistency, and who accord a general support to his policy, regret the lack cf dignity and restraint with which be plays his part in the controversy. Last night he bad all through his speech the beat of the argument, every shot was aimed well and truly and sped hard bom a to its target; but tbe effect would have been doubled and trebled if he had learned to imitate the courteous chivalry which distinguishes, for instance, his colleague, Mr. Goschen, and to which Mr. Gladstone's years and services, and the high positi >n in which he stands in the eyes of tbe whole world, entitle him even from the sternest and most vehement of bis opponents." The »weet will hardly reconcile Mr. Ra f tr to the bitter which is so pointedly imported into the c sentences*.