LORD GRANVILLE AND LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHCHILL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1162, 15 July 1885, Page 4

LORD GRANVILLE AND LORD RANDOLPH CHU RCHCHILL.

Rord Randolph Churchill, writing to the /"Times " a letter replying to Lord Granville's speech, says that he has never wished to be a peer, but he did experience a momentary wish to be a member of the .Upper House for just a quarter of an hour on the 10th May, in order that he might be able to give Lord Granville one mild reply. He says "there were two fair and honorable courses open. Lord Granville took neither, because by adopting either of them he would have been precluded from enjoying complete impunity, in making his foolish and ignorant charges against myself. Pray allow me," says Lord Randolph "through the * Times ' to deal with this unhappy man. " After making a more or less effective reply to Lord Granville's explanation of his inaccuracies, he says:— "All I would add, in conclusion , is this, that every statement I have made in the House of Commons .abo.ut the Russian advance in Central Asia was founded on official documents in possession of the public, and that not one of the Foreign Secretary's colleagues dared to impugn the accuracy of the statements, either on the day they, were made or on the Monday following, when another opportunity was open to them. The process of , sneaking down to the Houa.e of Lords and making there without notice a variety of deliberate misrepresentations, deliberate misquotations, and fajse assertion's is quite in accordance with the little .that is known of the public career of ' Earl Granville, Knight of the Garter, ' and,' to the, misfortune of his country, her f Majesty's Principal Secretary of State" for Foreign Affairs. Your columns 'being. the only place. where I am ableto 1 seize upon and expose this official mendacity, I be grateful to you for inserting this somewhat lengthy communication." > " '■'