THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3217, 11 June 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1879.

Some days ago we gave an extract from the Timei giving an opinion on Sir Wm. Harcourt, and the following is what the Home News says:—" Sir William Harcourt is a shrewd, rather than a strong, party politician, and it may be conjee,tured that, he would, scarcely bare been so amusingly abunive of the Government and all their works unless in his opinion the ,tide of popular opinion was setting against them. His hearers were told that the* policy of the Government was 'a policy of bluster,' and that their finance-^in postponing the payment of their liabilities—.was ' the finance of insolvency.' ' Heroic policy,' he' said, 'and heroic expenditure,' coupled with financial poltroonery, will ruin any nation in'the world.' Of Sir Stafford Northcote he remarked that he began life as the. 'pupil of Mr Gladstone, and an industrious apprentice/ and ' that if he has now strayed into evil ways it is because .he has fallen intq bad company." Then came a satirical analysis of, Jingoism, 'jlhere was a moment when he feared that the old solid fibre of the English character had really degenerated, and that we had become a sensational braggart people, who mistook tinsel for sterling metal, and swagger for courage. . . . But,this Jingoism never had any backbone or substance about it. .". . Jingoism that has not the pluck to pay its way is a very poor spirited, harmless sort of creature. It crows loud' enough, but it is not a bird of the game; it is a dunghill cock." This was the strain of t Sir William Harcourt's invtctive throughout, and the finishing touch was a comparison of the' modern Jingo to Shakespeare's ' mine Antient '— ' 'just the' sort of man who would have published to the 'world' tUb* Salisbury Circular and then signed the" SchouvaToff Memorandum in sec el.' As for 'the works of Jingoism, he summed them up in the expression 'cheap braggadocio.

peace with honor upon tick, a banquet of glory* where the entertainer bilks the bill."' J. .