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"ho rallied him unmercifally, telling him he had not had 1865.
lf hig deserts, and that he had something yet in store ir. 51
for him himself. Molesworth tried to be audacious, and
old Bright, ‘You are just as bad as I am. Lord John
"ll get sadly mauled before the end of it. The part I
Tough out respecting his signing away the rights of the
Wallachiang and Moldavians will be flung in his face again.
Roshuck says he shall tell him that he ought to be ashamed
° Show his face in the House after affirming such a doc-After

 reading this speech, so full of knowledge and com-Prehengive
 reasoning and of strong moderation as distin-Suished
 from the same quality when it is weak, we can
"derstand that even in the midst of their anger against
Cobden and Mr. Bright, people began to feel secret mis-Sivings
 that they might be right after all. “There isa
Srowing mistrust,” Cobden wrote to Mrs. Cobden about this
tine, « of the durability of Palmerston’s Ministry. I have
heang from several quarters that if I and Bright had not
been go ‘wrong’ on the war we should certainly have been
forceq into the Ministry. Two letters from Delane, the
Bditor of the Times, written to friends of his, but not intended
‘or my eye, have been put into my hands, in which this
“Niment, ig expressed that Bright and I must have been
Ministers if we had not shelved ourselves by our peace
Principleg,”
Until the end of 1855 the prospects of peace seemed
very remote, Lord John Russell described the state of
ings with characteristic concision in a letter to Cobden.
“The peace of Amiens,” ho said (Nov. 12, 1855), “avery dis-“Wantageous
 peace—gave universal joy. The peace of 1763,a
very glorious peace—gave general dissatisfaction. The people
of this country are not tired of war, and do not much feel
‘he Sacrifices you speak of. When they are tired, they will
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