She Is An Excellent Creature,

The View Of Jerusalem Is The History Of The World; It Is More, It Is The History Of Earth And Of Heaven.

For Nearly Five Years The Present Ministers Have Harassed Every Trade, Worried Every Profession, And Assailed Or Menaced Every Class, Institution, And Species Of Property In The Country. Occasionally They Have Varied This State Of Civil Warfare By Perpetrating Some Job Which Outraged Public Opinion, Or By Stumbling Into Mistakes Which Have Been Always Discreditable, And Sometimes Ruinous. All This They Call A Policy, And Seem Quite Proud Of It; But The Country Has, I Think, Made Up Its Mind To Close This Career Of Plundering And Blundering.

Governments Do Not Govern, But Merely Control The Machinery Of Government, Being Themselves Controlled By The Hidden Hand.

Lord Salisbury And Myself Have Brought You Back Peace--but A Peace I Hope With Honour.

Though I Sit Down Now, The Time Will Come Whenyou Will Hear Me.