Ten thousand Gladstonian. Liberals, including three thousand from Bristol alone,
the remainder coming from Yorkshire and the Midlands, organised a visit to Mr. Glad- stone at Hawarden on Tuesday. Of course Mr. Gladstone did not attempt to address so large a number, but he delivered a speech of an hour's duration to a small number of them (chiefly Bristol men) from a barricaded corner of the court- yard of Hawarden Castle. He dwelt on the services of the late Mr. Handel Cossham to Bristol, and complimented Sir Joseph Weston, who has succeeded him in East Bristol, on his great majority; and then launched into a reply to the Daily Telegraph's article on his Lowestoft speech concerning the riot at Mitchelstown three years ago, which he is deter- mined, so far as in him lies, that the British public shall never forget. Then Mr. Gladstone went on to denounce the Irish Land-Purchase Bill for its waste of English resources on Ireland, and to repeat his bitter attack on the Licensing Bill, which he assumed to be intended in the interests of temperance, but could only assume to be so intended, by supposing that what the Government had to say for its good intentions must be subtracted from its credit for common-sense. The speech was not a remarkable one. It was a warming-up of cold political food, if food it could be called.
