April 18. At Memorial Hall on Eastern Question at conference of 400 London nonconformist ministers.
May 21. Protests against use of Indian troops in Europe without consent of parliament.
May 23. Receives deputation of Scotch Presbyterian ministers: on the Eastern Question.
May 27. Protests against despatch of Indian contingent to Malta.
June “Liberty in the East and West” in Nineteenth Century.
June 13. On treaties of 1856 and 1871.
June 18. On a motion to appoint select committee on Scotch Church Patronage act, 1874.
July Contributes paper to symposium,—“Is the popular judgment of politics more just than that of the higher orders?” in Nineteenth Century.
July 6. On Homer at Eton.
July 11. In London on spendthrift administration of charity.