Samuel, and to one or two of us outside the House had been indirectly associated; the remarkable th was the presence of Irish M.P.'s-Mr Redmond, Mr Ja Dillon, and Mr T. P. O'Connor. In his after-din speech, proposing Mr Asquith's health (to which Asquith replied in a speech of exactly three wor Dillon had emphasised this aspect of the matter said it was the first time Irish Nationalist M.P.'s sat at meat with English Cabinet Ministers. None them, he added, would have dared to do it before. repeated this to Lord Morley a few days afterwa whereupon he remarked:

'But that's not correct-they've dined with me. And w good company they are. "T. P." is one of the best talker London.'

J. H. M. Yes. He too made a speech, or rather an all tion, about the Ireland of his boyhood. Witty and pathe He said an Englishman, rich and a Protestant, took the l mansion in his village when he was a boy. The villag who were Catholics to a man, sat round their peat-fires cussing the new arrival, the heretic's fine raiment, his hunt his clothes, and his table. One of them said, 'Yes, and has chops and steaks every morning for breakfast' at wh added T. P., there was a long pause of stupefaction, for n of them had ever tasted a chop or a steak in his life, and last one of them said, 'Ah, well, he has his heaven here belo LORD MORLEY. A good story. But what a comment the poverty of Ireland! And it's we who're responsible. has been so infernally bedevilled by us that no Englishn can cast a stone at her.

I conclude these extracts with some notes of a c versation at a dinner-party at the National Liberal C on Nov. 22, 1912. It was a dinner I had given partly his honour, partly in celebration of a book, in wh many of my guests had collaborated, and which II edited for the Eighty Club, on the New Irish Constituti I had chosen the guests, to some extent, with an eye the spiritual enjoyment of the chief of them, and rewarded by seeing him expand in such congenial co pany. They were, indeed, nearly all of them men w whom, at one point or another, he had much in comm Pages of Irish history were represented by Lord Wel a great authority on Home Rule Finance, Lord Macdon

Birrell, and Mr Barry O'Brien. Scholarship was repreated by Sir John Macdonell, Sir Frederick Pollock, and r G. P. Gooch; Liberal journalism by Mr C. P. Scott. ord Haldane was there, also the eminent Scottish divine, r Alexander Whyte, and an alien phase of Liberal Imerialism was represented by that most charming and ompanionable of men, the late Bourchier Hawksley.

LORD MORLEY. You have read Machiavelli ?

J. H. M. Yes, and Guicciardini. Do you remember his mment on Machiavelli's saying that all men are bad? He ys that all men are naturally good but that they are aturally weak, and he establishes his point by saying that en a 'bad' man always tries to find an excuse.

LORD MORLEY. I'd forgotten that. Where did he say it? J. H. M. In his commentaries on the Principe and the iscorsi. Some one says-Villari, I think-that Machiavelli was the first person to perceive that public morality and rivate morality are two different things.

LORD MORLEY. Well, but so they are.

Let us ask

aldane. Haldane, are public morality and private morality wo different things?

LORD HALDANE. Well... they should approximate.
LORD MORLEY. Did they approximate in Disraeli?

J. H. M. He hadn't the honesty of Mr Gladstone.

LORD MORLEY. Well, but was Mr G. always honest? J.H. M. I admit his casuistry. But wasn't it an intellectual ther than a moral fault? Didn't he convince himself at the course he sought was the right one? Whereas israeli only sought to convince himself that it was a profit

ble one.

LORD MORLEY. That won't do. The Bessborough Commison on Irish Land Tenure reported in favour of the three 's What did Mr G. do? He denounced it in private as onstrously inequitable, and two months later he introduced bill to that effect.

he rest is too long to quote.

Here I conclude. I have tried to portray Lord Morley he was. The portrait is, doubtless, not quite what e general public would expect it to be. He was not, the writer of one obituary notice has declared him be, 'the embodiment of Reason enthroned.' He was thing so austere or so inclement. As Mr J. A. Spender, o knew him well, recently wrote to me, he was vastly

different from the popular conception of him-he 'both greater and less' than their estimate of him. had faults, in common with all the sons of men; he w not have been so intensely human if he had had t not. Most of these, such as his extreme sensitive had a common source with his most lovable qualitie which a tenderness passing the love of women was Human nature is a fallible and an imperfect thing, the secret of character seems to be a Manichean mys in which there can be no light without darkness, the sources of a man's strength are also the source his weakness. The metaphysical problem of Good' 'Evil' is not more mysterious.

He loved justice and hated iniquity. With s literary affection for the grand tyrants of history loathed contemporary tyranny. He was no aus rationalist, impatient of human emotion. Cruelty his blood like a taunt; pity informed his whole out on life. Carved in bold letters on the granite mar piece of his library were the words, The nobler a is, the more objects of Compassion it hath,' and great saying of Bacon's was constantly on his lips. was no sour ascetic. He loved the savour of the things of life. As has been remarked, he had his s of human weaknesses; but just because he had ther knew how to feel for human frailty and error. Hen sympathy with his kind, almost feminine in its deli and more than masculine in its strength; to ma wounded spirit did he bring words of assuagement of peace. Of that 'best portion of a good man's life 'His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love,

his share was large, his capacity for them was infi No kinder heart nor one more sensitive ever sweet the intercourse of life. If I had to choose any one to express the quality of his soul, I should say it loving-kindness.

His old age was a singularly peaceful and happy lightened as it was by the rare devotion and cons solicitude of his immediate relatives. When I last him, a few months before the end, a slow re euthanasia seemed to be creeping over him, and as

adows deepened he lived more and more in the past.
favourite books were constantly in his hands, but
ough his eyes were on the page his mind was often
away.
'He thinks he reads much,' were the words
one who was near and dear to him, but in reality
reads very little.' He forgot names and misplaced
tes; he spoke to me of his visit to Germany 'in 1918.'
But at eventide there shall be light. An infinite
ntleness and a great patience diffused his being with
e pale glow of resignation, as though nothing mattered
ry much. I well remember one afternoon when,
ting together in his library in the deepening twilight
late October, we talked of the eternal mystery, and I
oted to him the lines of a favourite poet of his :

'Illud ab hoc igitur quærendum est, quid sit amari Tanto opere, ad somnum si res redit atque quietem Cur quisquam æterno possit tabescere luctu.'

But isn't it true?' he replied, and, rising with an fort from the depths of his chair, he walked with Itering steps to a shelf, and taking down a well-loved lume, he read out the memorable words of the Convito erein Dante speaks of death as the quiet haven in ich the soul, like a good mariner, after long questing, kes safe anchor at last. There is much to quiet us in leath so noble.

He passed away at a time when the great world in ich he had played so distinguished a part was in the vail of a new birth; the horizon was dark and heavy h foreboding. Of his passing one may say what he 1 of the death of Burke in the catastrophic days of 7: These sombre shadows were falling over the stern world when a life went out, which, notwithading some grave aberrations, had made great spaces uman destiny very luminous.'

J. H. MORGAN.

.241.-No. 479.

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Art. 8.-THE MISUSE OF THE JUDICIARY.

It is essential to the well being of a State tha administration of the law should not only be but be so recognised by the people; and if the Jud of a State is used for purposes other than the inter tion of the law from the Seat of Justice, or is al to misuse its powers, there cannot be a proper ad tration of the law.

It will be assumed that the truth of these pr tions is admitted, and on that basis the foll remarks are made. The Judiciary of England Wales ranges from the Lord High Chancellor t Registrar of a County Court; and includes any who with authority administers the law in a Cou Justice. The domain is extensive; indeed, it is so that there must be a limitation of the scope of remarks. In this case it is easy to make that li tion, as it is proposed to deal directly only with House of Lords and the Judges of the Supreme C All other judicial officers, whether of the Privy Co or the Unpaid' Bench, will be affected only in so f the observations concerning the main subject app them. This being so, it follows that for these pur the Judiciary' means, the Lord Chancellor, the Chief Justice, the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary Master of the Rolls, the President of the Probate, Div and Admiralty Division, ex-Lord Chancellors, and -unpaid-Peers who habitually exercise judicial tions in the House of Lords, and the Lords Justices. the Judges of the High Court. Before proceedi discuss instances of misuse of our Judiciary, the que should be asked, whether that Judiciary is pro appointed and composed of satisfactory Judges; a order to its solution another question should be answered, which is, what are the essential qualities good Judge? Now it would be difficult to enum, all those qualities. There is great difference of op as to some of them: therefore, it is better to ind those on which there is general agreement and say. chief among them are high personal character, sk the Law, and impartiality, or, at all events, a reput