When you came into power in 1874, I dreamed of a revival of real Conservatism which under wiser guiding might and would have lasted to the end of the century.

This is gone--gone for ever.

The old England of order and rational government is past and will not return.

Now I should like to see a moderate triumvirate--Lord Hartington, Lord Granville, and your husband, with a Cabinet which they could control.

This too may easily be among the impossibilities, but I am sure that at the bottom of its heart the country wants quiet, and a Liberal revolutionary sensationalism will be just as distasteful to reasonable people as 'Asian Mysteries,' tall talk, and ambitious buffooneries." Lord Derby became more and more Liberal, until in December, 1882, he joined Mr.Gladstone's Cabinet.