John Morley: “I do not say there is no force in them, but there are deeper questions at issue to which both I and the Governor-General…”

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.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.