24 JULY 1886, Page 2

Nor does the "civilised world" entirely agree with Mr. Glad-

stone on the subject of his recent proposals. The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, last Monday reported an interview with Dr. Bollinger, for the impartiality of whose historical conscience Mr. Gladstone himself has, we know, the deepest respect, in which Dr. Bollinger deeply regrets Mr. Gladstone's policy, and treats it as a great blow to the unity and power of the British Empire. That, of course, is only a single opinion, not individu- ally, of course, nearly as weighty as Mr. Gladstone's ; but when Mr. Gladstone treats the Unionist view as the mere narrow and prejudiced view of class and privilege, such a judgment as Dr. Dollinger's is at least a sufficient proof that that is not the whole account of it.