Sir Richard Cross has been on the stump in Lancashire—
sent there, perhaps, as representing the quieter Conservatives, the Conservatives of Sir S. Northoote's school, not the Conser- vatives of Lord Salisbury's. This day week he made two speeches, one at Golborne and one at Newton, in which he took great credit for the late Government for the Treaty of Berlin, forgetting that the Treaty of Berlin differed from the Treaty which it superseded, chiefly, if not wholly, for the worse, and especially for the worse on all points on which the British Government had been mainly instrumental in altering it. On the Irish question, he adopted Mr. Parnell's saying that we shall always find the Irish people " a bad people to run away from,"—which is very true. But is it not odd that even the quieter Conservatives seem so eager just now to take hints from Mr. Parnell ? Do they sit at his feet as they do, be- cause they are profoundly impressed with the benefit accru- ing to Lord Randolph Churchill from the tutorship of Mr. Parnell ?
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