21 AUGUST 1880, Page 2

Lord Randolph Churchill made a rather amusing attack on his

own leader on Monday. He asked Lord Hartington whether, in view of the great importance of the measures to be submitted to Parliament, and the fact that "the princi- pal members of the late Government had, since Thursday, the 12th, quitted the metropolis, apparently for good," Lord Hartington would move for a call of the House, or would support the motion if it were made by a private Member. Perhaps Sir Stafford Northeote might reply, that since Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr. Gorst have taken so prominent a part in the tactics of the Opposition, he finds his own occupation gone, and may just as well shoot grouse, as follow or vainly expostulate with Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr. Gorst.