Aug. 15. Fourth administration formed.
Aug. 24. Returned unopposed for Midlothian.
Aug. 29. Knocked down by heifer in Hawarden Park.
Sept. 5. A paper on Archaic Greece and the East read before Congress of Orientalists.
Sept. 12. At Carnarvon on case of Wales.
Oct. “A Vindication of Home Rule: a Reply to the Duke of Argyll,” in North American Review.
Oct. 22. Cuts first sod of the new Cheshire railway: on migration of population and mineral produce of Wales.
Oct. 24. Delivers Romanes lecture at Oxford on history of universities.
Dec. 3. Presented with freedom of Liverpool: on history of Liverpool and Manchester ship canal.
Dec. 21. Leaves England for Biarritz.