I read out the words which Mr. Gladstone was to use in his speech. "What then are the modifications?" they asked. I said that as he was not wanted to specify them, they ought to rest and be happy with the phrase. I said that all that I had written down was in no sort of way binding on you, and, so far as you were concerned, was non-existing, and that they were to be treated as my own pious opinions.--Yours truly, H. LABOUCHERE. _P.S._--I said that I gathered that you would not be in this afternoon, but to-morrow morning. _Telegram, Mr. Labouchere to Mr. Chamberlain_ May 8, 1886. Stansfield who was in train says all went right at meeting this afternoon Herschell not there thought to be out of town if you do not hear from him this is why. LABOUCHERE. _Mr. Arnold Morley to Mr. Labouchere_ 12 DOWNING STREET, S.W., May 8, 1886. MY DEAR LABOUCHERE,--Herschell had to leave town before the end of the Cabinet, and on his return on Monday he will be sitting in the House of Lords. Perhaps later on it may be arranged. {339} Would you or would you not telegraph to him to explain his not coming?--Yours truly, ARNOLD MORLEY. _Mr. Labouchere to Mr. Chamberlain_ Sunday, May 9, 1886. MY DEAR CHAMBERLAIN,--On coming back here from Hastings, I have found this letter from Arnold Morley. I think that the "cave in" is complete, and if you only seize the first opportunity to accentuate it and to recognise it, your triumph will be complete--details are, comparatively speaking, unimportant. If you get into a discussion about them you lose your triumph. You went for "full representation," and, as I understand it, you get it. At the meeting at Hastings a speaker alluded to you--dead silence. The man next me said, "A few months ago they would have all cheered." When I spoke I said that I thought Mr. Gladstone would agree to Irish Representatives, in which case I thought that you would vote for Second Reading upon which the audience cheered again and again. This shows how the cat jumps even in a place like Hastings, which is not very Radical.--Yours truly, H. LABOUCHERE. _Mr. Labouchere to Mr. Chamberlain_ 10 QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, Sunday, May 9,1886.