May 27. Meeting of liberal party at the foreign office: on the Home Rule bill.

May 28. Explains intentions regarding the Home Rule bill.

June 7-8. Concludes debate on Home Rule bill.

June 10. Announces dissolution of parliament.

June 14. Issues address to electors of Midlothian.

June 18. At Music Hall, Edinburgh, on home rule.

June 21. At Music Hall, Edinburgh, on home rule.

June 22. At Glasgow on home rule.

June 25. At Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on home rule.

June 28. At Liverpool on Ulster and home rule.

July 2. Returned unopposed for Midlothian and Leith.

July 20. Resignation of third administration.

Aug. 19-24. On government's Irish, policy.

Aug. 25. Leaves England for Bavaria.

Aug 28. "_The Irish Question: (1) History of an Idea; (2) Lessons of the Election_," published.

Sept. 19. Returns to London.

Sept. 20. On Tenants Relief (Ireland) bill.

Oct. 4. At Hawarden. Receives address signed by 400,000 women of Ireland: on home rule.

1887.

Jan. "_Locksley Hall_ and the Jubilee," in _Nineteenth Century_.

Jan. 27. Tribute to memory of Lord Iddesleigh.

Jan. 27. On Lord Randolph Churchill's retirement and Ireland.

Feb. "Notes and Queries on the Irish Demand," in _Nineteenth Century_.

March "The Greater G.o.ds of Olympus: (1) Poseidon," in _Nineteenth Century_.

Match 17. To the liberal members for Yorkshire: on home rule.

March 24. On the exaction of excessive rents.

March 29. On Criminal Law Amendment (Ireland) bill.

April "The History of 1852-60 and Greville's Latest Journals," in _English Historical Review_.

April 18. On second reading of Criminal Law Amendment bill.

April 19. At Eighty club on liberal unionist grammar of dissent.

April 25. Criticise Mr. Goschen's budget.

May "The Greater G.o.ds of Olympus: (2) Apollo," in _Nineteenth Century_.

May 5. Moves for select committee to inquire into the _Times_ articles on "Parnellism and Crime."

May 11. At Dr. Parker's house on Ireland.

May 31. On Crimes bill at Hawarden.

June Reviews Mr. Lecky's _History of England in the Eighteenth Century_ in _Nineteenth Century_.

June "The Great Olympian Sedition," in _Contemporary Review_.

June 4. At Swansea, on Welsh nationality, Welsh grievances, and the Irish Crimes bill.

June 6. At Singleton Abbey on home rule and retention of Irish members.

June 7. At Cardiff on home rule.

July "The Greater G.o.ds of Olympus: (3) Athene," in _Nineteenth Century_.

June 2. To the liberal members for Durham on Lord Hartington's Irish record.

June 7. Moves rejection of Irish Criminal Law Amendment bill.

June 9. Presented at Dollis Hill with address signed by 10,689 citizens of New York.

June 14. On second reading of the Irish Land bill.

June 16. At National Liberal club: on Ireland and home rule movement in Scotland and Wales.

June 29. At Memorial Hall on the lessons of bye-elections.

Aug. "Mr. Lecky and Political Morality," in _Nineteenth Century_.

Aug. 16. Lays first cylinder of railway bridge over the Dee: on railway enterprise and the Channel tunnel.

Aug. 25. On proclamation of Irish land league.