24 MAY 1884, Page 2

This deliberate revolt of Lord Randolph Churchill against his leader,

so soon after the reconciliation bad been patched up, has fallen like a bombshell into the Conservative ranks ; and tha Standard on Thursday thundered against him in language of unusual violence, accusing him of destroying the coherence of the party, and declaring that he ought to be drummed out of the party and regarded as a free-lance. Per- haps Lord Randolph would reply that that is exactly the position he does assume, and that it is not his fault if the extraordinary absence of men of mark amongst the Conserva- tives give to what he says more significance than he should be disposed to claim for it. However this may be, it does seem hardly possible for Lord Randolph Churchill and Lord Salisbury to co-operate for the future in any sense whatever in the organisation of the Tory party. You might as well talk of the co-operation of the man who takes the chair with the boy who suddenly, by way of a practical joke, pulls the chair from under him.