3 DECEMBER 1892, Page 18

Lord Ripon, who spoke at the Eighty Club on Wednesday

evening, gave an official contradiction to this American rumour as to Mr. Gladstone's intentions. Their friends across the Atlantic, he said, were very smart, but he did not recommend them to put their money on the horse that had been trotted forth that day, which was not at all, in many of its features, like the horse which was being trained at Hawarden. The measure of Home-rule which they hoped to submit would not be of less extent than that of 1886, though occasion would be taken to correct what was condemned in it by public opinion. Lord Ripon, however, gave us no further insight into the secret which has been, and seems likely to be, so carefully kept.