John Morley: “It is a marked and significant act of entire separation from the whole party and will strengthen Disraeli’s hands.”

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.