Sir George Trevelyan has written a letter to the Secretary
of the Liberal Association in Glasgow consenting to contest the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow, vacant by the resignation of Mr. E. Russell, as a Liberal. In it besets forth that the Unionist Liberals are aiming not at a settlement of the Irish Question, but at "the suppression of the Liberal Party," and states that with that policy he will have nothing to do ; that he is thirsting for a reform of the land ; for a Local Government Bill ; for a new Reform Bill extinguishing the plural voters,—a result which could practically be obtained without any Reform Bill, by fixing all the elections on one day, though no such modest remedy would satisfy Sir George Trevelyan,—for the abolition of the conditions of residence which disfranchise the moveable population ; for the Disestablisbment of the Welsh Church ; for the foundation of a true Municipality in London ; and for a Local Option measure. As regards Ireland, he is for keeping the Irish representatives at Westminster, establishing an Irish Legislature and Irish Executive, "with careful precautions for the due administration of justice and enforcement of its decrees and against the Crimes Bill, which he attacks violently, espe- cially in connection with Mr. King-Harman's appointment as Parliamentary Under-Secretary. The letter, which we criticise elsewhere, is one which we have road with equal surprise and regret. Sir George Trevelyan has forgotten liberty in his passion for Liberalism.
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