... hope success was left unused. But all failed because Mr. Gladstone’s oblect was too transparently veiled; while some of his Whig colleagues and followers were desirmis of giving him Indirect snub as they appear to have been of keeping the question of Reform ...

... “without portfolio ” is not likely to escape criticism in the House of Commons. It is true that such a position was filled the Whig Ministry by the Marquis of Lansdowne in his declining years, but the Lower House is much more particular than the Upper in ...