I don't know whether the noble lord has repented or not; but I do say that his Government will rue it, if his answer is not the one word 'Intervention!' Mistaken, rash or not, dreamer if you like, Claridge Pasha should be relieved now, and his policy discussed afterwards.

I don't envy the man who holds a contrary opinion; he'll be ashamed of it some day.

But"-- he pointed towards Eglington--"but there sits the minister in whose hands his fate has been.

Let us hope that this speech of mine needn't have been made, and that I've done injustice to his patriotism and to the policy he will announce." "A set-back, a sharp set-back," said Lord Windlehurst, in the Peers' Gallery, as the cheers of the Opposition and of a good number of ministerialists sounded through the Chamber.

There were those on the Treasury Bench who saw danger ahead.