30 JULY 1887, Page 2

Mr. Bright has written a very vigorous letter in favour

of Mr. Evelyn Ashley's candidature for the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow. "To me it seems," says Mr. Bright, "that Sir George Trevelyan thinks no sacrifice too great to restore the unity of the Liberal Party; for this he is now willing to give up the unity of the Three Kingdoms, having abandoned the position he occupied a year ago." "Mr. Gladstone has led the Liberal Party into difficulty and danger. The country will not let him go forward, and Mr. Parnell will not let him go back." The future, says Mr. Bright, is very doubtful; but evidently the election of Mr. Evelyn Ashley in the place of Sir George Trevelyan would tend at least to clear the horizon. More vigorous and more temperate words have seldom been written.