May God bless him!...
Robert has been frantic about the Crimea, and 'being disgraced in the face of Europe,' &c.

&c.

When he is mild he wishes the ministry to be torn to pieces in the streets, limb from limb.

I do not doubt that the Aberdeen side of the Cabinet has been greatly to blame, but the system is the root of the whole evil; if they don't tear up the system they may tear up the Aberdeens 'world without end,' and not better the matter; if they do tear up the system, then shall we all have reason to rejoice at these disasters, apart from our sympathy with individual sufferings.
More good will have been done by this one great shock to the heart of England than by fifty years' more patching, and pottering, and knocking impotent heads together.

What makes me most angry is the ministerial apology.