Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman made a speech at Blair- gowrie on
Thursday, which will certainly not have the effect of breathing new spirit into the Radical party. He said that the majority of 152 was a formidable majority, but that looking behind it to the popular vote, it ought to have been only 14. He said that the Newcastle programme was a very good programme, and that the outcry against it now was unreasonable. He said that though Lord Salisbury is quite right in keeping strictly to the policy of the concert of the European Powers, yet that he ought to feel very much the burden of his responsibility in bringing back " Peace with honour' in 1878," now that the concert of Europe can apparently only be maintained by ignoring the pledges to right Armenian grievances which the Treaty of Berlin im- posed upon us. In reality, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman bad nothing to say. Apparently, after the great defeat, he wants to go pegging away on the old lines. That may do for him. But it will not make the Radical party at all happier or wiser or more prosperous.
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