John Morley: “Why should not they try to extricate themselves from this miserable habit, and aim at some better solution?”

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

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

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.

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