7 APRIL 1888, Page 2

Mr. John Morley opened on Wednesday a new Liberal Club

at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and made a very vigorous speech, though his chief deliverance had a decidedly partisan ring in it. In the morning, he declared himself a moderate Liberal opposed to all extremes. He avowed his belief that the Northern Liberalism is essentially moderate, as well as more sturdy than the Southern Liberalism. He urged the admission of Dis- sentient Liberals to the Club, in the hope that they would be converted to the Home-rule view; and he declared that the chief constituents of the Liberalism of the North, are common-sense, good-nature, and a firm and steady head, qualities which would secure for it an ultimate victory.