The Duke of Argyll began a fine speech in Glasgow
on Tuesday to the West of Scotland Liberal Unionist Associa- tion, which was interrupted in a quarter of an hour by a fainting-fit, which put an end to it. He declared his intention of speaking to his audience about the Earl of Rosebery, and while half apologising for taking so modest a subject, he pleaded that it might lead him through the "narrow and crooked lanes" of Lord Rosebery's speeches to "the mag- nificent thing which we call the British Constitution." The Duke said that Lord Rosebery desired to bring about a much greater revolution than that of 1688, for he had entreated his party to give him a good sweeping majority to build up a new British Constitution, and when asked what the new British Constitution was to be, he had replied, "Oh, I cannot tell you, for I am not sure that I know myself, but give me a sweeping majority and you shall see." While commenting on this " monstrous " demand, the Duke • was seized with sudden faintness, and had to be carried out. Later he was removed to Lord Kelvin's residence, and the Duke himself declared that he was not so ill as his friends • supposed. He promises to publish what he had intended to say, but the latest account is that he is feverish and unwell.
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