John Morley: “Gladstone’s help would settle the Irish question as Peel with the help of the whigs settled the question of corn.”

It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.

People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.