Review of reviews and world's work . , andshould have been debated with at least as much careas the regulation of local government in Ireland. Itmay involve among other trifles the break up and re-constitution of the Liberal party. As, however, itseemed to offer a chance of securing a somewhatheavier vote for the Liberal candidates at the comingelection. Sir W. Harcourt marched gaily into thelobby for the Eight Hours bill, carrjang with Mmninety-nine Liberals, while thirty-three voted on theother side ^^•ith Mr. Morley. Mr. Gladstone did notvote. -, _. . The division, said Mr. Morley at Sale,


Review of reviews and world's work . , andshould have been debated with at least as much careas the regulation of local government in Ireland. Itmay involve among other trifles the break up and re-constitution of the Liberal party. As, however, itseemed to offer a chance of securing a somewhatheavier vote for the Liberal candidates at the comingelection. Sir W. Harcourt marched gaily into thelobby for the Eight Hours bill, carrjang with Mmninety-nine Liberals, while thirty-three voted on theother side ^^•ith Mr. Morley. Mr. Gladstone did notvote. -, _. . The division, said Mr. Morley at Sale, The Division • on the Eight on March 30, of a week ago, may m theHours Bill, f^^j^ggg of time prove to have signalizeda new departure for good or for e^^l, to point to a newdistribution of political force, and to be a memorablelandmark in the history and the aims, the structureand the composition, of English political parties. Itmay or it may not. Sir W. Harcourt, of course, andthe front benchmen, who voted for the bill, would. SIR WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT. have sat on the fence a little longer if they had notbelieved they could afford to play tricks \vith thequestion. It is, they say, only a miners bill. Thereis no question of an Eight Hours bill for all classes oflabor. Besides, the biU was certain to be rejected—it was, in fact thrown out hy a majority of , considering all things, the capitulationtook place in due form. Mr. Pickard, Mr. Abrahamand the Parliamentary CoUectivist school generally,have reason to rejoice over a defeat which has deliv-ered into their hands as prisoners of war the LiberalDiigald Dalgetty and all his men. Their satisfaction


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