Mr. Mundella made an excellent speech at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Wednesday
on the political situation, in which he argued for a sober foreign policy and a spirited domestic policy. He was-eager to get the Franchise Bill passed, if it could be done by merely building a golden - bridge by which the Tories could retire from their untenable position; for he thought nothing could be rightly determined as to the future form of the Constitution till the people had been enfranchised, and could express their own wishes freely. Mr. John Morley, who followed him, expressed moderately his doubts as to the policy of nego- tiating with the Tories. He did not hope very much from it ; but he was not, he said, one of those who would cry out that his friends had surrendered their cause, till he had something like proof that what he valued had been sacrificed in the negotiation, and there was no such proof as yet. On the whole, Newcastle- on-Tyne holds loyally to the Goverament.
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