§ MR. BROADHURSTI should like to ask the indulgence of the House for a moment, while I make a personal explanation, affecting my official work. The noble Lord the Member for Woodstock (Lord Randolph Churchill) is reported 1119 to have said last night that I had, in connection with some other persons, been working up an address to the Prime Minister. I beg to say that there is not the slightest foundation for any of the statements so made, neither as to the connection of myself, nor as to any of the other facts which the noble Lord mentioned in his speech last night.