... friends that their party had rid themselves of the unpopularity gained by acting as a kind of Humane Society to rescue the Whigs from the dangerous position in which they bad placed themselves and that they had grappled with the Reform question and settled ...

... great persons who had thought deeply on the subject—for instance might mention the attorney-general, Sir Roundell Palmer, a Whig minister, and I believe Sir Cornewall Lewis had strong feeli in the same direction—that if they did once lower the franchise ...