John Morley: “I am firmly convinced that on local government for Ireland they hold a winning position; which by resignation now they…”

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.