The contest in the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow seems to
be daily placing Sir George Trevelyan in greater difficulties. Apparently Sir George still accepts Lord Hartington's four points, but somehow considers them perfectly compatible with Mr. Gladstone's views on Home-rule. To borrow an expression from Mr. Chawberlain's speech at the Liberal Union, Sir George Trevelyan is "standing as a Gladstonian candidate on Harting. tonian principles." On Wednesday last, Sir George told his sup- porters that " since Mr. Gladstone's offer of conciliation, all the real differences in the party had passed away, and there remained only three difficulties,"—namely, the fact that the Liberal Unionists insisted on supporting the Tory Party, that they refused to give Mr. Gladstone the most ordinary credit for loyal conduct, and that they insisted upon regarding the true repre- sentatives of Ireland as public enemies. Until they gave way on these points, reunion with them was impossible. It is strange that Sir George Trevelyan does not see that the Liberal Unionists cannot give way on these points for exactly the same reason for which in the spring of 1886 he could not give way, and vote for Mr. Gladstone's Bill.
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