18/81 Lord Derby himself can hardly wish to see the country entirely in the hands of a single irresponsible Chamber elected by universal suffrage--and of such a Chamber, which each extension of the suffrage brings to a lower intellectual level." The following letter was written from Salcombe just after the General Election of 1886 and the defeat of Home Rule: "A Devonshire farmer fell ill of typhus fever once. He had quarrelled with a neighbour, and the clergyman told him that he must not die out of charity, and must see the man and shake hands with him. They were reconciled, and he was going away again when the sick farmer called him back to the bed-side. |