Mr. Gorst also tries to play Lord Randolph Churchill's part,
but plays it much more clumsily, and lays himself open to-effec- tive retorts. On Monday he asked Lord Hartington if he would engage that Parliament should not be prorogued till the result of Sir F. Roberts's march to Candahar had been ascertained. Lord Hartington replied that he could give no each engage- ment, but that he feared it was quite in the power of the honourable and learned Member, if he thought fit, to render it impossible to prorogue Parliament before the time re- ferred to. Mr. Gorst clearly thinks his Parliamentary inquiries concerning Sir F. Roberts a most important precau- tionary measure, quite essential to that able General's success. The superstition, however, that talking in high places about a man does him some mysterious good, is not founded on fact.
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