SIB GEORGE TREVELYAN'S GLASGOW LETTER.
IT is painful work criticising men whom we have been accustomed both to admire and to follow, but it is painful work which no journalist can escape. Sir George Trevelyan has made sacrifices from his sense of public duty of which very few of us could boast, and perplexed as we may feel at his present attitude, and still more perplexed as we must feel at the apparently ungenerous charges which he launches at his late colleagues, we are bound to believe, and do heartily believe, that he himself is acting a thoroughly disinterested part, though we wish we could find him as ready to attribute the highest motives to his former Unionist colleagues as we are to attribute them to himself. In his letter to Mr. Cochrane, the Secretary to the Liberal Association for Glasgow, he declares that the conduct of Lord Hartington and his colleagues has proved " to the judgment of every unprejudiced man, that the policy which is being pursued is aimed not at the settlement of the Irish Question by an amendment of the Bills of last year, but at the suppression of the Liberal Party." That is an imputation which is most unworthy of Sir George Trevelyan, and for
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