He has infinitely wider and larger resources than Mr.Chamberlain, who, nevertheless, excels in the alertness which is often the accompaniment of shallowness.

On this occasion Mr.Morley was rapid, prompt, crushing.

As thus: Mr.Balfour had spoken of the people who denounced Dublin Castle as "third-rate politicians." "Who is the third-rate politician ?" asked Mr.Morley, looking towards Mr.Chamberlain--everybody knows that he used to denounce Dublin Castle--and peal on peal of laughter and cheers followed from the Liberal and Irish Benches.

Mr.Morley followed up his advantage by saying, with a comic air of despair, "It is very awkward to have coadjutors using this kind of language about each other." [Sidenote: A reminiscence of 1885.] This is just the kind of thing which rouses even the most tired of the House; there was an immediate rise the temperature; the Liberals and the Irish were ready to delightedly cheer; the Tories, who always get restive as they approach the final hour of defeat, grew noisy, rude, and disorderly.

Then Mr.Morley turned to the charges against the Irish members, and asked the Tories if their own record was so white and pure that they could afford to throw stones.