CHAPTER XXII

1892-1895

OPPOSITION ONCE MORE

A new situation--General Election of 1892--Lord Randolph unopposed--Friendly dispositions of Conservative leaders--Lord Randolph rejoins their councils--Speech on the Home Rule Bill--Fatal symptoms--His last success--Correspondence with FitzGibbon--Riot in the House of Commons--Increasing infirmities--A desperate campaign--Kissingen--Meeting with Bismarck--Preparations for a long journey--The end.....453

APPENDICES

V. TWO ELECTION ADDRESSES, 1886 AND 1892.....491

VI. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE: THE CLOSURE.....500

VII. POLITICAL LETTERS OF LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL: FREEDOM OF CONTRACT; TEMPERANCE; HOME RULE.....504

VIII. MR. JENNINGS’ ACCOUNT OF HIS QUARREL WITH LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL: LORD JUSTICE FITZGIBBON’S NOTE THEREUPON.....512

IX. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL’S MEMORANDUM ON ARMY AND NAVY ADMINISTRATION.....517

INDEX.....525

ILLUSTRATIONS

TO

THE SECOND VOLUME

1. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, 1886 (_Photogravure_)....._Frontispiece_

.....TO FACE PAGE

2. ‘ULSTER WILL FIGHT AND ULSTER WILL BE RIGHT’ (_Photogravure_).....64

3. THE GRAND YOUNG MAN (_Cartoon from ‘Punch’_).....140

4. LETTER FROM QUEEN VICTORIA (_facsimile_).....154

5. ‘YOUTH ON THE PROW AND PLEASURE AT THE HELM!’ (_Cartoon from ‘Punch’_).....168

6. BELLEROPHON JUNIOR (_Cartoon from ‘Punch’_).....184

7. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL’S BUDGET (_facsimile_).....192

8. LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL (_from a drawing by John S. Sargent_).....438