NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE event of the week has been a grand Tory demonstration at Liverpool, where a large Party Club has been started, intended to play the part of the Birmingham "Caucus." Lord Salisbury, Sir Stafford Northcote, Sir R. A. Cross, Lord Sandon, and othei leaders were present, and the proceedings, which extended over Wednesday and Thursday, and included the opening of the Club, a banquet, and a meeting of the Workmen's Conservative Association, were most enthusiastic and successful. The two principal speakers, Lord Salisbury and Sir Stafford Northcote, evidently made some effort to re- frain from vituperation, though the former made one very nasty dig at Mr. Forster, and the Tory newspapers are eloquent over the gravity and importance of the speakers. The speeches contained no hint that the leaders were prepared either to force a Dissolu- tion or to take power, and no intelligible utterance on the repres- sive policy to be pursued in Ireland ; but they did contain a very distinct adumbration of the alternative which the Tories intend to propose for the Land Act. This is an extension of the Purchase, clauses so extensive that all tenants may become owners, the landlords being compensated with twenty or more years' purchase. The Liberals, it is almost certain, are again to be " capped " by a scheme which even Mr. Bright pronounced "too large."
