Sir Stafford Northcote spoke at Shoreditch on Tuesday on behalf
of Mr. Bartley's candidature for Hackney, and took occasion to make some very pointed remarks indeed on the- tranquillity which we might now expect in foreign affairs, and the opportunity we should, in consequence, probably obtain for quiet domestic legislation. That the Chancellor of the Exchequer intended to answer the sensational utter- ances of the Prime Minister, both in his letter to the Duke of Marlborough and his subsequent speech thereon in the House of Lords, there can be no doubt, as we have- elsewhere pointed out. We may here add that he was evid- ently also anxious, so far as he could, to counteract Lord Beaconsfield's appeal to anti-Irish feeling, by suggesting that it was the great wish of the Government "to do all in their power to knit together the hearts of all the subjects of the• Crown, whether they be Englishmen or Irishmen, whether they be townsmen or countrymen, whether they be Conservatives or Liberals." That is a very praiseworthy sentiment of the- Chancellor of the Exchequer's, but we fear it is too likely to be drowned in the notes of the Prime Minister's bugle.
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