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1887

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

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A long conversation with Stead. He told me some curious things, amongst others that the remarkable report of the Cabinet meeting in the Pall Mall Gazette of . . .1104 upon R. Churchill's resignation was a transcript verbatim from an autograph letter of Salisbury's to him. S. gave him this information with his own hand, but on condition that it should not be known that it had in any way come from him. Stead did not know at first how under such conditions he would make any use of it, but at last it occurred to him that he could publish it as his own report of the Cabinet meeting leaving everyone to guess how far it was true and if so how he had got it. Randolph of course was furious at this publication as it contained Salisbury's version of the quarrel, whilst he, Randolph, was bound not to give his statement till Parliament met. At the same time he did not know how such a report had got into the paper, not knowing of this secret communication. It was a very pretty piece of jockeying.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 35 , December 2009 , pp. 443 - 445
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2009

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1104 Pall Mall Gazette, 28 December 1886.

1105 Henry Stafford Northcote (1846–1911), Baronet Northcote (1887), Baron Northcote (1900). Con. MP for Exeter (1880–1899). Financial Secretary to the War Office (1885–1886), Surveyor-General of Ordnance (1886), Governor of Bombay (1899–1903), Governor- General of Australia (1903–1908).

1106 The Times, 19 January 1887, p. 8. Northcote died suddenly on 12 January, in the ante-room of 10 Downing Street. The event greatly shocked Salisbury (Cecil, III, pp. 343–345).

1107 Criminal Law Amendment (Ireland) Bill: Hansard, CCCXVII, 14 July 1887, Ashbourne, cols 710–724, Granville, cols 724–731, Carnarvon, cols 731–737, Argyll, cols 737–747.

1108 Ibid., Granville, cols 899–907, Northbrook, cols 901–908, Rosebery, cols 908–918 (the report for Northbrook's speech overlaps that for Granville because many of the speakers interrupted one another as the debate became heated).