I believe Lord Rosebery already rea lises that he has not improved his pos with the Liberals by the manner of recent intervention in the party troubles and his more recent attempts to keep himself in the public eye have not been more successful, The other day he wrote to the Chairman of the Imperial Liberal Council earnestly suggesting that the name should altered to" Liberal (Imperialist) Lexgue." His idea of cours was that they should identify themselves with the "main stream" of the Liberal Party. But the! public refused to be impressed with the Supreme importance of the point, whether Liberal should come before Imperial or Imperial before Liberal. Thea in his speech on the Royal, Declaration he emphasized an unimportant point with a terrific thump on a box on the table before him, which startled the House; and the Earl of Halsbury in his reply convulsed their lordships by expressing regret that he Ind not before him a piece of furni ture which would enable him also, by atreng'h of muscle to supply his Inck of argument. Lord Rosebery, like many humouriste, is very sensitive to ridicule, and am afraid the comments on his recent efforts to push himself to the front while "ploughing his own furrow" have not made him very happy.
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