Daring as he is, he could not venture on an entire defiance of public opinion.
Parliament of course would have to meet, and equally of course you and Lord D.would have to come up.

I conclude the object to be to get up a Russian war after all.

The stress laid by Lord Cranbrook on the reception of the Russian Embassy as the point of the injury will make it very difficult for the Russians to be neutral.

If this is what the Ministry really intend, they may have their majority in Parliament docile, but I doubt whether they will have the country with them.

I am sure they will not if Hartington and Granville support Lord Lawrence.
"I interpret it all as meaning that the Premier knows that his policy has thoroughly broken down in Europe, and at all risks he means to have another try in the East." It was Froude's opinion, right or wrong, that Lord Beaconsfield might have settled the Irish question if he had left the Eastern question alone.