Of speeches there are no end. Lord Randolph Churchill has
delivered two this week, one at Leeds and one at Carlisle, both pervaded by two thoughts,—one that bold, open rowdyism of expression will take with the mob, and the other that his special function is general abuse. At Carlisle he told his audience that Lord Harlington "had chucked up the sponge ;" that a Dissolution would mean Mr. Gladstone's retirement from public life ; that the Liberal Party yelled at the idea of a Dissolu- tion; that the House of Commons is utterly worthless and effete ; that Mr. Gladstone thinks when the voice of the people is opposed to himself it should be silenced at all costs ; that the only reason why an increase of Parnellites was to be feared was that when it occurred there would be another Kilmainham Treaty ; that Mr. John Morley was in favour of the "most unholy, most unconcealed, most shameless gerrymandering of the constituencies ;" that the Reform Bill of 1832 was the most unscrupulous piece of gerrymandering ever done ; and that the country "will turn with aversion from Ministers bankrupt of credit, politicians destitute of honour, zealots of peace who are reeking with blood, economists who are rapidly closing the few markets yet open to British industry, and whose best remedy for the woes of an afflicted people is an issue of copper half-sovereigns." More worthy of notice than this American rubbish is Lord Randolph's statement that the best scheme of Redistribution would be one approximating to an exact representation of numbers, and creating single-Member constituencies.
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