17 OCTOBER 1885, page 2

Lord Salisbury Is Getting More Conservative And Less Tory As

he goes on,—wisely, as we think, for Conservatism is in English- men's blood and Toryism is not. At Brighton on Thursday, after a clever reply to Mr. Chamberlain on foreign......

Mr. Chamberlain—who Has, As He Said, Just Been Staying A

few hours with Mr. Gladstone—made a bright, and even bril- liant, speech at Trowbridge on Wednesday, in which, however, he brought forward his special programme more strongly......

Mr. Chamberlain Has Repeated His Very Curious Offer Of A

compromise in the matter of Free Education. In a letter of October 9th, replying to the Dean of Wells—who declares, in a letter to him, that he (Dr. Plumptre) is a convert to......

Lord Randolph Churchill Issued His Address To The -...

on Saturday. It is marked throughout by a curious sense of being at the top and speaking from above, of which no extract would give sufficient illustration. He calls on the......

Is Not Sir Charles Dilke A Little Premature In All

this? The new Liberal Cabinet is not yet formed, and every detail may be modified except the elective principle. We doubt if moderate Liberals will decentralise to such an......

Mr. Chamberlain Repeated His Views As To Free Education, But

he formally and definitely announced that he saw no pro- spect of dealing with the question of Establishment in the coming Parliament. He is always clear, to do him justice, but......

Lord Hartington's Speech At Rawtenstall On Saturday;...

controversial side—and we may say at once that we have no space for the rejoinders of the statesmen to each other —shed much light on his personal attitude. He is not going, he......