John Morley: “I believe there is no danger to-morrow, but what next week may do is another matter.”

Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

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