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"ations would equally join in condemning the devilish act: 1888.
1d he should have placed himself under the protection of Ar. 5
"at sentiment of horror which was universally entertained,
"hilst he might have frankly owned that his life, like that of
Very other man, was ab the mercy of those who chose fo
“st off all the restraints of reason, religion, and humanity.
Such course as this, narrowing the responsibility of the
*rociong act to those who were its wicked authors, would
fave attracted the sympathy of the whole civilized world.
Sut i is useless now to dwell on these reminiscences. I
tpg the really gallant conduct of our Queen in paying a
sit to Cherbourg, and thus giving a slap in the face to
those mischievous fools who are constantly raising the cry
ofa French invasion, will have the effect of soothing all the
Titation on your side.”
The second Administration of Lord Derby was formed,
ud My, Lindsay asked for Cobden’s view of the new
Politica) situation, In reply he once more preached a sermon
°2 the old text.
“March 93.— The present men are more honest, and they
"19 certainly more obliging than the last” In this I agree
Mth you, and it might have been said of any Tory Governont
 gg compared with any Whig onesince I have been in the
Politica) ring. I remember when I came into the House in
18g, after the general election which gave Peel a majority
* Ninety, I found the Tories more civil in the infercourse
of the lobbies and the refreshment-rooms than the Whigs.
rug through all departments. It seems as if the Whig
“ado always thought it necessary to snub the Radicals, to
"isfy the Tories they were not dangerous politicians, But I
bo not blame them, for they live by it. I do blame those
"dVaneed Liberals who allow themselves to be thus used
* abused, There is no remedy but in the greater self-"pect
 of the middle class. I fear we have been going the