John Morley: “Gladstone himself always leaned strongly against these exceptional laws, and pressed the Irish government hard the other…”

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

Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.

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

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.