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Lord R,osebery replied in a light vein, remarking that since

the Duke of Argyll's secession, the late Government has been overwhelmed with his Cassandra prophecies of doom. He rallied the Duke of Argyll on having no word of advice for the present Government, though they have gone round from the attitude of indignation against the Liberals for not renewing the Irish Crimes Act, to an indignant repudiation of any neces- sity for renewing it ; and he concluded by remarking that neither "the ark of Liberal unity, nor the umbrella of the Liberal Party," to which the Duke of Argyll had referred with so much scorn, was at all likely to be found at Inverary.