p or fellowship.
June 30. Opens Caxton Exhibition: on the work of Caxton.
July "Rejoinder on authority in matters of opinion" in _Nineteenth
Century_.
July "Piracy in Borneo and the Operations of July 1849" in _Contemporary
Review_.
July 13. At Plymouth and Exeter on liberal party and Eastern Question.
July 16. On behalf of Bosnian refugees at Willis's Rooms.
July 20. On Irish demand for pardon of Fenian convicts.
Aug. "Aggression on Egypt and Freedom in the East" in _Nineteenth
Century_.
Aug. 4, 18, 20. Receives deputations of 5200 liberals at Hawarden on
Eastern Question.
Sept. 19. At Hawarden Grammar School on education.
Sept. 27. At University College, Nottingham, on higher education. At
Alexandra Hall on Eastern Question.
Oct. "The colour sense" in _Nineteenth Century_.
Oct. "The Dominions of the Odysseus and the island group of the Odyssey"
in _Macmillan's Magazine_.
Oct. 17. Visits Ireland.
Nov. "The County Franchise and Mr. Lowe thereon" in _Nineteenth Century_.
Nov. 7. Presented with freedom of Dublin: on Irish questions. Entertained
at luncheon by corporation of Dublin: on Irish municipalities.
Nov. 12. At Holyhead on Eastern Question.
Nov. 15. Elected Rector of Glasgow University,--Mr. Gladstone, 1153; Sir
Stafford Northcote, 609.
Nov. 23. At Hawarden on Russians, Turks, and Bulgarians.
1878.
Jan. "The Life of the Prince Consort" in _Church Quarterly Review_. "Last
words on the County Franchise" in _Nineteenth Century_.
Jan. 17. Comments on Sir S. Northcote's explanation of the government's
Eastern policy.
Jan. 30. At Corn Exchange, Oxford, on the vote of credit for six millions.
At Palmerston Club dinner on Canning, Palmerston, and liberal party.
Feb. "The Peace to Come" in _Nineteenth Century_.
Feb. 4. On Mr. Forster's amendment against vote of credit.
March. "The Paths of Honour and of Shame" in _Nineteenth Century_.
March 19. On Indian press law.
March 23. Receives deputation of Greenwich liberals: on unpopularity of
economy in public expenditure.
March 28. To deputation from Leeds on the Eastern Question.
April "The Iris of Homer: and the relation of Genesis ix. 11-17" in
_Contemporary Review_.
April 1. Supports Irish Sunday Closing bill.
April 3. On Vaccination Law (Penalties) bill.
April 5. On government and the Berlin Congress.
April 8. On government's Eastern policy in debate on calling out army
reserves.
April 18. At Memo
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