Dec. 3. On Mr. Balfour"s administration of Ireland.
Dec. 15. At Limehouse Town Hall on necessary English reforms and the Irish question.
Dec. 17. On English occupation of Suakin.
Dec. 19. Leaves England for Naples.
1889.
Jan. "Daniel O"Connell," in _Nineteenth Century_.
Feb. Reviews _Divorce_ by Margaret Lee in _Nineteenth Century_.
Feb. 20. Returns to London.
March 1. On conciliatory measures in administration of Ireland.
March 29. On death of John Bright.
April Reviews _For the Right_ in _Nineteenth Century_.
April 4. On 21,000,000 for naval defence.
April 9. On Scotch home rule.
May "Italy in 1888-89," in _Nineteenth Century_.
May 15. On second reading of Welsh Education bill.
May 16. Moves amendment to Mr. Goschen"s proposed death duties on estates above 10,000.
June 5. At Southampton on lessons of the bye-elections.
June 7. At Romsey on Lord Palmerston.
June 8. At Weymouth on shorter parliaments and Ireland.
June 10. At Torquay on Ireland.
June 11. At Falmouth and Redruth on Ireland.
June 12. At Truro, St. Austell, and Bodmin on Ireland, one man one vote, the death duties, etc.
June 14. At Launceston on dissentient liberals.
June 14. At Drill Hall, Plymouth, on home rule.
June 17. At Shaftesbury and Gillingham on the agricultural labourer.
July "Plain Speaking on the Irish Union," in _Nineteenth Century_.
July 6. Presented with freedom of Cardiff; on free trade; on foreign opinion of English rule in Ireland.
July 25. Golden wedding celebrated in London.
July 25. Speech on royal grants.
Aug. "Phnician Affinities of Ithaca," in _Nineteenth Century_.
Aug. 22. At Hawarden on cottage gardens and fruit culture.
Aug. 26. Celebration of golden wedding at Hawarden.
Sept. 7. Entertained in Paris by Society of Political Economy.
Sept. 23. At Hawarden on dock strike and bimetallism.
Sept. "The Triple Alliance and Italy"s Place in it," by Outidanos, in _Contemporary Review_.
Oct. Reviews _Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff_ in _Nineteenth Century_.
Oct. 23. At Southport on Ireland.
Oct. 26. Opens literary inst.i.tute at Saltney, Chester.
Nov. "The English Church under Henry the Eighth," in _Nineteenth Century_.
Nov. "The Question of Divorce," in _North American Review_.
Dec. Reviews _Memorials of a Southern Planter_ in _Nineteenth Century_.
Dec. 2. At Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on liberal unionists and foreign policy.
Dec. 3. In Free Trade Hall on government of Ireland.
Dec. 4. At luncheon at Town Hall on city of Manchester.
1890.
Jan. "A Defence of Free Trade," in _North American Review_.
Jan. "The Melbourne Government: its Acts and Persons," in _Nineteenth Century_.
Jan. 9. At Hawarden on the effect of free trade on agriculture.
Jan. 22. At Chester on Ireland.
Feb. 5. At Oxford Union on vestiges of a.s.syrian mythology in Homer.