The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.

The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.