Mr. Gladstone on Wednesday received at Hawarden an immense deputation
of Delegates from the North of England, to whom he made a speech, repeating his well-known views upon the Eastern Question, denouncing the summons to the Sepoys as uncon- stitutional, and adjuring his audience not to despise the danger in which the Constitution was placed by the advo- cates of personal power. He believed that the article in the Quarterly Review was a "feeler," and after a most effec- tive statement of the true doctrine of the Constitution under which the Throne remains apart from all our squabbles, declared that the purpose of the article was disloyal to the Crown and dangerous to the liberty of the people, and that papers not so bad had been burnt by the common hangman. We do not quite coincide in that judgment. The writer of that article, by putting on paper ideas before only floating among powerful persons, has warned all England, and produced probably as much impression as Mr. Gladstone himself.
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