Gladstone and Derby
The following singular letter appears in a recent Camperdown Chronicle (Victoria) : — " It must strike all thoughtful colonists as truly unfortunate that the British ' nation should have at the head of affairs two men thoroughly incapable of maintaining its dignity and consolidating its dependencies. Gladstone acts, apparently, on the old, absurd, exploded doctrine of acknowledging a slap on one cheek by holding ' up the other.. Derby, on the other hand, is always in a muddle, and when I was lately in Scotland it pushed the British public, and particularly the canny Scotch, to understand how a man who could not be trusted with silver spoons at dinner partiee, without a servant to watek thai he did not pocket them, ; should he., 'trusted with the destinies of the (Empire. People may laugh at this statment, but it is true notwithstanding, and may account tor the vagaries of the i;oble earl." -■?■■■>
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 99, 5 February 1885, Page 2
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151Gladstone and Derby Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 99, 5 February 1885, Page 2
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