John Morley: “Say what they would, military occupation was taken to make them responsible for everything that happened in Egypt.”

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

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

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