NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE political speeches of the week have been few and compara- tively unimportant. Lord John Manners, at Leicester, has made a strong Tory speech, pointing with exultation to the failure of republican forms in Mexico and the United States, but omitting all mention of failures under the paternal theory. He talked of Mexico but forgot Poland. Mr. G. Onslow, on the other hand, has made a strong Radical speech at Guildford, in which, among other things, he boasts that he did not go into Parliament to represent himself. In plain English, he is ready to think one thing and say another, a form of democracy too advanced even for Mr. Bright. In strong contrast to both stands the speech of Mr. Dunlop, at Greenock, a speech of which we can only say here that it is the perfection of " canniness." He reviews the last session wisely and warily, with a little satire for his adversaries, and a gentle benevolence for his friends, which almost makes one believe last session a signal success. Mr. Du Cane, at Hedingham, has expressed the views of the more advanced Tories in a pungent criticism of the session, which is, to Mr. Dunlop's, what the olives are to the sherry. Mr. Rennie, the Conservative candidate for Totness, has delivered a speech only valuable as ex- pressing the ideas of the Tory rank and file, but containing few " points" beyond a hope that the Church may be restored in pecuniary matters to her ancient position.
