... that country was simply because we had abstained from meddling with her internal affairs. As for the Punjab, the state of our arms in that part of India was not such as to entitle us to look forward to being able to reduce our military establishment. The ...

... liannibals, the lion. John Plunket. Without being a downright noodle, Mr. John Plunket is notoriously one of the dullest barristers (we would not say lawyers) who ever wore pig's hair on an unlearned bead. The sons of Grattan and O'Connell have inherited ...