John Morley: “Its greatest favourers love it better in the abstract than in the substance.”

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.