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merely provided that at least
4 ministers should be in the Council
or Assembly. So they often had none
in the Council: and the thing became
a one-horse sort of affair.

I am glad to hear that Sir W^m
took a run down to see the Exhibition.
My kind regards to him and all.
The Campbells are well.

I am enraged with the English
elections. That simpering Lord Granville
perhaps thinks that he and L^d Hartington
can guide the storm. He will
find that he is an idle figure head
on a creature which is moved after
its kind by the tail: in which the
main joints are J. Bright, Chamberlain
Gladstone Bradlaugh et hoc genus
omne. Ugh! my gorge rises
at it. A mad world! No
country profits by the experience
of another. Only by their own sorrows
will men learn to be wise.

Yours very sincerely

[signed] G W Rusden