On Thursday, Lord Randolph Churchill laid the foundation- stone of
a new School building, and seized the occasion to press. again his wonderful proposal that the taxpayers—as distin- guished even from the ratepayers—shall defray the whole cost of every child's elementary education, whether at Voluntary schools or at Board schools, though both are to be managed by authorities who are under no responsibility at all to anyone for- the costs they may incur. In the evening, he noticed witla evident satisfaction Sir William Harcourt's nick-name for him as the " Maldi of Birmingham," and delivered a further attack on the Egyptian policy of the Government, which he declared to. be incurably bad, and only to be mended by promptly expelling- the Government from office. He declared his expectation that. be should only be defeated at Birmingham as the English army was said by Napoleon to have been defeated at Waterloo,—i.e., so defeated as to get all he wanted out of the defeat.
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