17 APRIL 1886, page 6

The Appeal To Democratic Feeling.

B Y far the most formidable, we do not say the most able, speech delivered in defence of Home-rule has been the one in which Mr. Gladstone summed up the debate on Tues- day......

The Budget.

S IR WILLIAM HARCOURT is exactly the man for chatting pleasantly about a commonplace and common- sense Budget, which was the description which he himself applied to his Budget......