John Morley: “My view is that the powers given under the Regulation of 1818 do constitute an emergency power, which, may be lawfully…”

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

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.