Aug. 28. At Hawarden on garden cultivation.
Sept. 14-Oct. 21. Travelling in Bavaria and Italy.
Oct. “The Olympian System versus the Solar Theory” in Nineteenth Century.
Nov. 3. To students at Wellington College on knowledge.
Nov. 25. At Music Hall, Edinburgh, on issues before the electors.
Nov. 26. At Dalkeith on domestic questions.
Nov. 27. At West Calder on right principles of foreign policy.
Nov. 29. At Edinburgh on tory finance. In Waverley Market on Balkan principalities.
Dec. 5. Inaugural address at Glasgow University. In St. Andrew's Hall on government's European, Indian, and South African policies.
Dec. Publishes Gleanings of Past Years 1843-79, in seven volumes.