etc.," and then you might fairly say that you have got precisely what you want, and thus bear off the honours of war. You have never publicly insisted upon the particular mode by means of which the desired end is to be attained.--Yours truly, H. LABOUCHERE. _Mr. Labouchere to Mr. Chamberlain_ 10 QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, Wednesday. MY DEAR CHAMBERLAIN,--I have just got your note and have privately let Mr. Gladstone know your position. I have suggested this, that if he intends to insert a Clause giving the Irish Representation, he must necessarily withdraw the twenty-fourth, and that consequently he can use the word "withdraw," which might get over the difficulty. But whether he will do this, I don't know. Except that the Cabinet would not hear of the withdrawal, and leaving matters as they are in regard to {350} Irish Representation until future Legislation, they seem to have left him a free hand.--Yours truly, H. LABOUCHERE. _Mr. Labouchere to Mr. Chamberlain_ Thursday, May 26, 1886. MY DEAR CHAMBERLAIN,--There is no doubt about the prorogation. It was settled last night, much against the wishes of some, who regard it as too much of a surrender. I have been urging that Fowler, who is to speak after some Conservative who has got the adjournment for to-morrow, should translate from one hour of Gladstonese into five minutes of English. The absurd objection to this is (as yet) that he is not in the Cabinet. My impression is that most of the Radicals will return to the fold. They don't like a dissolution, with a Liberal enemy against them. This is all very well for you, but the fry will go to the wall in these localities. Some of the Scotch have also come in. After all, if Mr. Gladstone withdraws his Bill and agrees to bring in another, in which Clause twenty-four is to be reversed--the exclusion being inclusion--he does more than withdraw the clause, and the prorogation was really only decided on by Mr. Gladstone in order to give you full satisfaction. Caine, I hear, says that he never will vote for the Bill--probably not, considering the influence of the Cavendishes at Barrow. If he did, he would not get in.--Yours truly, H. LABOUCHERE. _Mr. Labouchere to Mr. Chamberlain_ May 29, 1886. MY DEAR CHAMBERLAIN,--I think that I have arranged for a written antidote which will appear on Monday to the "responsible frivolity" of our loquacious and indiscreet friend. I am not yet quite sure whether it is arranged, so please don't say anything to _any one_ about it, or, if it appears, say that I had anything to do with it. _He_ insists that he said in the House exactly what {351} he had said at the Meeting.[11] Reading his speech, it is difficult to pin him to any particular passage--the only thing that can be said is that he used phrases, which might cover a wider principle than "a domestic Legislature for Irish affairs." I was asked to put on paper my objections to the speech.