But the poor President of the Board of Trade is conscious of doing everything man can do to help to the solution of the vexed questions of the time.

He cannot avoid allowing himself to be worked up into a frenzy by imputations which he ought to know are simply intended for the purpose of getting him out of temper, and so prolonging debate.
[Sidenote: Sir John Gorst.] Sir John Gorst is one of the men who have again been brought much into evidence by the turn events have taken.

I remember the time when he first made a Parliamentary figure.

It was in the days when Lord Randolph Churchill started out on his great and meteoric career, at the beginning of the Parliament of '80.

Sir John Gorst was, in many respects, the cleverest of the brilliant little group--at least, at the work which they were then doing.