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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3203, 26 May 1879, Page 2

' 'I ' ' ' One of the most characteristic sigm of the times' in Britain.'(says a Scotch paper) ;s fhe political activity evei?where displayed. The representatives of^ .both parties arc on the alert, and the country is literally flooded with speeches' of an electioneering character. It is evident that a crisis is approaching, and no effort is wanting, or likely to be wanting, to marshal the forces on both sides for t'ae contest. One of the most active of the recent speakers has been the Marquis of Hartington. At Edinburgh, Liverpool, and other places he has delivered speeches of a strongly party case', and' which have been characterised by intense feeling and. , deep thought. ': It is more than ever (apparent r that Lord Hartington will yet i prove a'good party leader. The distinctive issue to be raised in the country will affect the foreign policy and. financial extravagance of the Government. There will be well if on all sides the issue bft: fought out on a strictly constitutional basis rather thnn by party airmaciversion and assault. It was a Boston girl who modestly, re-, ferred to Lord Beaconsfield's now honor ,„ as " the Order of the Elastic." .i/*?^ 0^ ■