CHAPTER XI

1885

AT THE INDIA OFFICE

A serener sphere--The Council of India--Lord Randolph in office--Railway development in India--Mr. Moore--The Russian crisis--The Afghan boundary--Correspondence with the Queen--Increase of the British and Native Armies in India--Appointment of Sir Frederick Roberts--The Indian Budget in the House of Commons--Lord Randolph and Lord Salisbury as letter-writers--The Bombay command--Resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill--Correspondence--Lord Salisbury yields--Settlement of the dispute--Conquest and annexation of Burma--The New Year’s Proclamation.....474

APPENDICES

I. THREE ELECTION ADDRESSES, 1874, 1880, 1885.....527

II. FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE NATIONAL UNION OF CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATIONS.....537

III. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL’S EXPLANATION OF HIS ACTION IN REGARD TO THE REFORM BILL, 1884.....550

IV. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL’S LETTERS FROM INDIA, 1885.....554

ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE FIRST VOLUME

.....TO FACE PAGE

1. Lord Randolph Churchill, 1886 (Photogravure).....Frontispiece

2. LORD RANDOLPH AT ETON AND AT OXFORD (_Photogravure_).....12

3. {LORD RANDOLPH AND HIS FATHER} (_Photogravure_) {LORD RANDOLPH AND HIS MOTHER}.....28

4. LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL (_Photogravure_).....72

5. MEMBER FOR WOODSTOCK (_Photogravure_).....108

6. THE FOURTH PARTY (’_Vanity Fair_’), by Leslie Ward.....

7. ATHWART THE COURSE (_Cartoon from ‘Punch’_).....232

8. A DREAM OF THE FUTURE (_Cartoon from ‘Punch’_).....252

9. THE FIRST DIPLOMA OF THE PRIMROSE LEAGUE (_facsimile_).....260

10. THE WAITS (_Cartoon from ‘Punch’_).....472

‘Heard are the voices, Heard are the sages, The worlds and the ages; “Choose well; your choice is Brief and yet endless.

Here eyes do regard you, In Eternity’s stillness: Here is all fulness, Ye brave, to reward you; Work and despair not.”’ --_Goethe._