New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-14
GLADSTONE IN EDINBURGH.

TWO GREAT MEETINCS-wf NDERFUL INTEREST AND
FSTHUsIAsM-THE ORATOR AT MS BEsT-IlIE
PEOPLE IN FRENZY OF EXCITEMENT.
IFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIDUNEl
rp.xBuRGH Nov SOL must appeal once more
TO the patience OF readers, what there Is lett OF
II. and bey them 10 accompany me to the Gladstone
meetings held YESTERDAY frs, in the Corn Exchange
and afterward in the Waverley Market These as
sembes were the fitting close and crown to the
carrier demonstration of the same week, and they
had n, the same time each distinct character of It's
OWN. During the whole week the interest and en-
thusjasm about Mr.. Gladstone has been Increasing.
II Won want tie mo practical evidence of the So
ld,ty and extent of the general feeling you have
only 20 look at the business columns OF The Scotsman
where YOU will find scores of advertise
IaeDts Offering tickets to Saturdays meet
ings for sale, or containing offers to
buy The price of a reserved seat in the Corn Ex-
change ruled as high as $40. That is only detail
though significant one. You must have been here
in order 10 get anything like an adequate notion of
the ex ;itemsnt prevailing in great city and pos
sessing whole people OF this one topic
For myself, am painfully conscious that am still
more or less under the spell Of the magician who has
Wrought at his will all this week upon the sensbi
ties OF his hearers and still subject to the iuiin-
ence Of ncessant contact with great masses of peo-
nile whose emotions were all flowing in one channel
do NOT pretcnd that sit down and write with that
ndica serenity of mind which is, or is supposed to
he the piiyilege of the journalist IN dealing with
public events. have SCENT has been my business
10 see-great public displays OF many difiereut
sorts in many parts of the world. recollect none,
certainly none winch was purely political in char
actcr which has risen to the height of this.
never heard, doubt whether anybody ever heard,
sueI, a succession of speeches IN single week, SO
extraordinary rs sustained efforts Of oratoiy anu SO
extraordinary IN their effect upon the audiences
who heard them. and upon the people IN
the midst of whom they have been delivered.
But will say this in mitigation of the censurc
which may be the penalty of a susceptibility adj
nit to be unprofessional. don't plead that 1t Is
shared by all Scotland. But l do urge that the
most veteran and practised expert in such marers
now living shares it. Mr.. Gladstone himself said
yesterday. privately. that De had never seen any
thing like il IN his life.
GREAT MEETING IN THE CORN EXCHANGE.
The purely electoral business of the week came to
an end with the gathering on Thursday
az West Calder. The meetings OF yes
terday were convened by the Liberal Association
OF the East and North OF Scotland and III one the
worklngmen Of Scotland also took part. The Corn
Exchange in which the first was held Is an edihce
well enough adapted for dealing in breadstufs. As
a public hall its one merit is its capacity II will
contain, and did yesterday contain, nearly $500
persons seated. II is the building where ten years
ago Mr.. Disraeli proclaimed to an astonished
world that he had been engaged in educating his
party. and comnemorated his satisfaction with the
success OF his efforts. The echo which that an
nouncement produced has not died away, unhap-
PLY. II fingers in the building, and the