Mr. Trevelyan spoke at Croydon on Thursday, on behalf of
Mr. Sydney Buxton, who is courageously contesting that rather hopelessly Tory seat, vacated by the promotion of Mr. Grantham to the Bench. As Mr. Grantham got in by a majority of 1,169, Mr. Sydney Buxton's gallantry is, we fear, greater than his hope of success,—a success, nevertheless, which we cordially desire. Mr. Trevelyan attacked warmly both the desertion of their duty in Ireland by the present Tory Government, and their reckless finance, speaking of the country as on the edge of an abyss of deficits, into which it might at any time, if not properly guided, fall headlong. He also gravely censured the use made
by the Government of their patronage, and loyally defended the policy of the Liberals, both in Ireland and elsewhere. Mr. Trevelyan, however, did not venture on the thorny question, how the Liberals, without a majority over Tories and Par- nellites combined, and without much prospect of complete unity amongst themselves in their Irish policy, were to secure the confidence of the House of Commons.
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