Mr. Chamberlain addressed a mass meeting in the Corn Exchange
at Edinburgh, which was filled to overflowing, on Tuesday, Lord Lorne in the chair. The Marquis of Lorne, on taking the chair, remarked on the professed intention of the- Gladstonians to abolish squires and parsons, as rather unkind in a party whose illustrious leader was "wholly a squire, and who, greatly to his credit, might be considered more than half' a parson." Unkind perhaps it may be, but great reformers do not mind being unkind, and Mr. Gladstone certainly would never hesitate at a policy which was directed against what he- considered the abuses of his own order, whether they incon- venienced him or not. We are not even sure that it would not add a piquancy to a policy which he thought right, if Mr. Glad- stone found that it would strike at the privileges of an order to which he himself happened to belong. Let us do the great- leader of our opponents at least that much of justice.
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