Mr. Forster addressed his constituents at Bradford, on Saturday last,
in St. George's Hall, telling them what, in hie opinion, both the Liberal party and the country at large would be prepared to do, if, after a general election, the Liberals come into power. They were prepared for giving the vote to the agricultural labourer, by extending household suffrage to the counties, and for a considerable redistribution of seats. They were prepared for a good county-government Bill. They were also prepared to protect the farmer not against his foreign com- petitors, but against all who:interfered with the best methods of production,—against land-laws which make the best distribution of land difficult and expensive,—and against such laws as the game laws and the law of distraint, which put the farmer under unfair disabilities. The Liberals and the country were also prepared for a return to the policy of " sanity and the Ten Commandmentsrf or reconsidering such mad engagements as we have recently taken in Asiatic Turkey, and for revising our foreign policy for the future in a sense opposed to the stealing of scientific frontiers from weak neighbours. It was said that under the present Government, England had regained her influence on the Con- tinent, but Mr. Forster wanted to know with whom P Had she more than before with Turkey, whom we had, in the opinion of Turkey, deceived P or with the Christian subjects of Turkey, whom we had, in their opinion, abandoned P Mr. Forster, in short, holds out to the country a new home policy and a new foreign policy,--a home policy of electoral, administrative, and land reform ; and a foreign policy of sanity and sympathy, in place of one of delirium and defiance.
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