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Lord Randolph Churchill, however, did take a very despond- ing

view of Ireland, and a still more desponding view of the prospects of this Government, which he expressed with that triumphant insolence of style which he has made his own. He pretended to think that the Prime Minister had spoken of Mr. Herbert Gladstone as the "infant Hercules," who would strangle the hydra-headed disaffection of Ireland, instead of the Land Act, and he uttered his prophecy of the humiliating defeat which the constituencies were soon to inflict on the Government with as much solemnity as he could muster. But the Solicitor-General for Ireland, though he replied to Mr. Gibson, passed Lord Randolph Churchill over with complete indifference.

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