29 MARCH 1884, Page 3

Mr. Gladstone on Friday afternoon was still not well of

his cold. He does not, in fact, improve rapidly, the weather being most unfavourable; and it is not probable, as any exertion would injure his throat, that he will appear in the House of Commons for some days. Sir, Stafford Northcote is suffering from a similar attack. The "rain falleth alike on the just and unjust," and while the Premier and the leader of Opposition suffer from sore-throat, Lord Randolph Churchill is unvisited, and talks on as if he would never be silent again. If Mr. ins Thurn would study him, he would see that the feat of his Indian "medicine-man," described elsewhere, was not so mar- vellous, after all. Lord Randolph, if wanted, could roar at * stretch for six hours, and be ready to begin again.