... pursued anything but the interests of coteries. Ministries under these conditions could not last. The general then proceeded to speak of Ministries who drew money from the public treasury in order to secure votes from the electors.(Loud murmurs.)— The President ...

... into office in 1880, after six years of government of Ireland by Lord Beaconsfield, what were the words he made use of ? Speaking in March, 1880, at Edinburgh, he said: There is an absence of crime and outrage with a general sense of comfort and satisfaction ...