On Saturday afternoon, a deputation from New York, con- sisting
of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, Mr. Perry Belmont, Chairman of the House Committee of Congress on Foreign Relations (not the very much more important Com- mittee of the Senate on Foreign Relations), Mr. Walters, Mr. Shayne, km., Mr. P. A. Collins, and Mr. T. C. Crawford, pm- sented to Mr. Gladstone, at Dollis Hill, a testimonial expressing the admiration of 10,689 New Yorkers for his services to the Irish cause. The testimonial is a silver trophy, in the form of a casket, weighing a thousand ounces. It is surmounted by a bust of Mr. Gladstone, wreathed in shamrocks. On one side is a head in bas-relief of Homer, and on another of Demosthenes. A female figure, wearing a star-spangled robe, holds in one hand an Irish harp, while she places the other on the pedestal of the bust of Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Pulitzer, in presenting the bust, expressed his personal opinion that the demand for an Irish Legislature is "imperatively right and just."
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