It is, of course, impossible for us to give even
an idea of the shoals of addresses published by the thousand or so of candidates standing for the 652 seats. As a rule, the Tories follow their leaders' cue,—exult in their foreign policy, declare that the Liberals would adopt strict non-intervention, and affirm, sometimes with a startling contempt for truth, that the Liberals are friendly to the Home-rule cry. The Liberals almost universally denounce the recent policy, as a policy of "brag and blunder;" reject Home-rule, but promise equality of rights to Irishmen ; and repudiate non-intervention. Perhaps the two most distinctive addresses among the lesser leading men are Mr. Goschen's and Mr. Childers', Mr. Goschen repeating his refusal to establish house- hold suffrage in the counties, and Mr. Childers declaring his desire that the Church should be reformed. He says The Established Church has not suffered, but, on the contrary, gained, by the removal of the past grievances of Noncon- formists ; and I hope now to see reforms in her government, and in the administration of her property, vigorously taken in hand." That is, so far as we have seen, the only expression among the addresses indicating that the candidate is thinking of a subject which may one day become very prominent.
