On Wednesday, Mr. Gladstone spoke at Truro, St. Austell, and
Bodmin. At Truro, he complimented the atmosphere of Cornwall on being saturated with Liberalism. If so, it would be practicable, we suppose, to store the air of Cornwall for consumption in some Conservative counties, as an ingenious man some years ago stored up the air of Italy, in an " ammonia- phone," we think he called it, for consumption by English vocalists who wish to clear their lungs of our turbid and foggy atmosphere. Further, Mr. Gladstone maintained that though the Catholics may be in some danger of persecution from the Orangemen of Ulster, the Orangemen of Ulster are as safe from persecution at the hands of the Irish Catholics as if Roman Catholic persecution had never been heard of, and rested his case on the willingness of the Irish Catholics to take Protestant leaders like Grattan, Curran, Butt, and Mr. Parnell. At St. Austell, Mr. Gladstone anticipated the legis- lative adoption of the principle of "One man, one vote," as soon as he gets a majority at the General Election,—it was his own doing that the principle was rejected in 1885,—laughed at bimetallism,—condemned the attempt of the Government to get rid of the Continental sugar-bounties, an attempt surely breathing the essential spirit of Free-tra.de,—and advocated an equality between the Death-duties on personal and real estate.
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