THE NEW LEADER OF THE LORDS.
The “ Spectator ” of May 14 thus concludes an article on the appointment of Lord Salisbury as the successor to Earl Bcaconsfield in the leadership of the Conservative party in the House of Lords :—Take him how you will, there is menace for the Constitution in the rise of that reckless and defiant spirit to be the head, or all but the head, of a great, mute, inarticulate Party with which his whole political nature is in sympathy, whose extremes of feeling appear to him moderation, and who are sure to be much more bold, self confident, and therefore much more dangerous, under his leadership than they were under the cool and mocking glance of the man whose criticism they feared as much as they admired his audacity. If anybody could endanger so popular an anomaly as our House of Lords, that man is Lord Salisbury. Almost any statesman of influence can now endanger our hold of Ireland, and we only hope that Lord Salisbury may not effect that also. He is just the man to kill the two birds with one stone.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2598, 19 July 1881, Page 2
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188THE NEW LEADER OF THE LORDS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2598, 19 July 1881, Page 2
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