There were then some scornful and contemptuous allusions to Mr.Russell--to his stale vituperation, and, above all, to his grotesque charge against Mr.Morley of making himself the tool of clericalism.

"There are more kinds of clericalism than one," said Mr.Morley, alluding to the violent partisanship of the Presbyterian clergymen of South Tyrone.

Finally, the speech ended in a lofty, splendid, and impressive peroration.

When tracing the progress of the cause for the last seven years, Mr.Morley spoke with the fine poetic diction in which he stands supreme, of "starless skies" and a "tragic hour"-- meaning the Parnell crisis--and then he used the words which more than any other thrilled the House.

"We have," he cried, "an indomitable and unfaltering captain," and cheer on cheer rose, while the Old Man sat, white, silent, with a composed though rapt look.
There was the bathos of a poor speech from Colonel Nolan, and then the division.