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Show HOME IE iM m for mm Remarkable Change in Sentiment Senti-ment of English Political Leaders Is Noted. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, ,'July :(). Lrisli Secretary Hirrcll, addressing tho Eighty club, composed of young Liberals, I old thorn they aro probably nearer than any of them imagined, to a settlomont of home rule by which each of tho three kingdoms king-doms will havo charge of its own local affairs. jIr. Birrcll, representing '.Ireland and her demands, is a member of the conference con-ference of leaders, which still continues, contin-ues, and every one litis connected this declaration of his with what lias boon going on behind tho doors of tho conference. con-ference. Tho Daily Express, horolo-forc horolo-forc a ferocious opponent of homo rule, came out' yesterday with a strongly strong-ly sj'mpathetic pronouncement. But most significant of all is tho tenor ten-or of talk among the Tories in tho house of commons lobbies. The younger Tories and a good many of tho older onos aro weary of being tied to the coniMails of tho "Ulster Orangemen. An Irish Nationalist leader, whose name would command respect ovcry-whoro ovcry-whoro if he permitted it s use hero, said: "It would ereate a political sensation sensa-tion if I told you who the Tories aro, especially those of the younger .school, who havo come to mo to sny they would accept homo rulo now. It is the most remarkablo change in political sentiment senti-ment that T have known in my time and it is tho healthiest, for it is spontaneous. spon-taneous. "It remains now only for tho conference con-ference lo show why there should be home rule and tho Irish question will bo settled at last. "1 have never known a political secret sec-ret to be bettor kopt than that of tho confcrcnco doings. It is too difficult to beliovo that the members of the confcrcnco are indifferent to tho in-flucucs in-flucucs now working in tho Tory party. Perhaps tho prediction that one of King Georgo's first acts after his coronation would be to open tho IriBh parliament in College Green in Dublin, it may not prove far fetched as it would scorn to those who do not know matters as thoy stand." |