2 NOVEMBER 1878, Page 2

Jingoes are not grateful. Here is actually Lord Elcho writing

to the Times, on Wednesday, to say that he can find nothing in Sir Stafford Northcote's speeches in the Midlands, except a threat to Turkey. They remind him of the Frenchman who, seeing an English family of ten children, said, "Voile, une famine qu'il faut mesurer par le kilometre !" Lord Elcho is too hard in say- ing there was nothing in Sir Stafford Northcote's speeches. Their meaning was most valuable to philosophers, who can always henceforward quote them in illustration of the "infinitely little.'