The National Magazine (New Series) September 1887 a Monthly Review

It was stated—with what justice we are not in a position to decide—that the truth or falsehood of the charge was beyond the issue ; that the sufficiency of the reply did not concern the question ; that the essence of privilege lay in the nature of the charge itself. [...] There was a collection of books brought in from the library ; there was a communication between the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Law Officers of the* Crown ; there was a reference again to certain other books which were brought into the House during my right hon. [...] The principle of a prosecution by the Attorney-General is that the Attorney-General believes in the guilt of the patty prosecuted. [...] The former is 3fect 5 inches out of the Poirlaendicular while the latter and the smaller one is no lass than 8+ feet out of the perpendicular and looks as if it was about to fall ! The obliquity of many towers in Italy has been caused by the settling of the ground. [...] I left Florence at night and the next morning I was in Rome " the Niobe of Nations " the " Mother of Dead Empires." I could scarcely believe that I was in that ancient city the mistress of the ancient world the wonder of the modern world ! I could scarcely believe I was treading the path along which Vestal Virgins walked twenty-five centuries ago that I was standing on the ruins of the edifice