Lord R. Churchill made, on Friday, a long speech at
Sheffield, which was in the main an attack on Lord Hartington's speech at Waterfoot. He went over the speech inch by inch, and pronounced it naught. The denunciation pleased his audience, and would have been effective but for the beginning and end. In the beginning he said, " There was not a word, there was not a line, there was not a sentence, there was not a single political opinion uttered at Waterfoot which showed the smallest or faintest shred of difference of political principle between Lord Hartington and those who are now responsible Ministers of the Crown." And at the end he implored Lord Harlington to come over to the Tories and help them. It is not of much use to discuss or answer an attack upon a political leader when the speaker who makes the attack says his adver- sary is right, down to his commas, and that he only wishes he would become his colleague. Lord Harlington is no fly to be enticed into that spider's den, but in making his admissions Lord R. Churchill gives up his case. If Lord Harlington is so absolutely right, Mr. Chamberlain has not corrupted him, and the society of -Lordlt. Churchill could not improve him.
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