14 MAY 1892, Page 2

In another speech, at a banquet given to him at

the Con. servative Club, Mr. Balfour pointed out that the Gladstonians were preparing to get in on an English programme, in order to carry out an Irish programme. Whether that was the way to succeed in the General Election, he was dubious. But of this he was quite sure, that the "over-production of political promises" by which the Gladstonians hoped to secure their election, would never serve to maintain them for six years in the creditable possession of office. The unfulfilled promises would swamp them with reproaches for their neglected engagements.