He has been passing through what Disraeli once called a campaign of passion in the provinces; and his speeches have been full of the wildest fury.

But all the fire had become extinguished.

When Lord Randolph Churchill makes up his mind to be rational, few people in the House of Commons can be more rational; but when he makes up his mind to throw prudence, sense, and reserve to the winds, nobody can rise to such heights and descend to such depths of wild, unreasonable, bellowing Toryism--always, of course, excepting Ashmead-Bartlett.

But when he is rational he is often dull--when he is unreasonable he is often very entertaining.

The speech of April 18th was a rational speech--it was, therefore, a dull one.