Lord Hartington addressed a meeting of about 1,600 of his
constituents in Rossendale on Easter Monday, after an inter- view with the Council of the Liberal Association, in which he seems to have been interrogated a good deal on the subject of his speech at Her Majesty's Theatre in the company of Lord Salisbury. In his address he referred to the subject, declaring that the association for defending the Union, which promoted the meeting, was one which he joined six months ago, at a time when nobody dreamt of challenging Liberal Members for approving of that policy ; that he attended it in conjunction with a good many sound Liberals ; that it was in no sense a Tory meeting, and that if there were more Tories than Liberals there, that was no affair of hie ; that he had thought it his duty on so important a matter to join any one who would join with him in resisting a dissolution of the Union, and that though he would prefer to concert his tactics with Liberals, it was im-
possible to offer the measures he dreaded any effectual resistance without being willing to co-operate and vote with Conservatives for the common end.
