This will bring wars with it before long, and a proportionate increase of the power of the Executive Government.

If Parliament abdicates its authority now, what may we not anticipate?
I have long felt that the House of Commons could not long continue to govern the great concerns of the British Empire as it has done.

I certainly did not expect that it would yield without a struggle--nor will it.
Sooner or later we shall see a fight against the tendency which is giving so startling an evidence of its existence--and what is to happen then ?" "July 21st, 1878 .-- Lord Derby's speech was as good as it could possibly be.

What he says now all the world will say two years hence.

How deeply it cut appeared plainly enough in the scenes which followed.