4 FEBRUARY 1905, Page 15

"It is impossible indeed to provide for some of the

greatest dangers which can happen to national freedom by any formal statute. Even now a minister might avail himself of the temper of a Parliament elected in some moment of popular panic, and, though the nation returned to its senses, might simply by refusing to appeal to the country govern in defiance of its will. Such a course would be technically legal, but such a minister would be none the less a criminal."—(" Short History of the English People," chap. 8, sec. 6, " The Long Parliament.")

This great man, who loved his country, did not live to see how true his words were.—I am, Sir, &c., T. M. X.

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