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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 27 (search)
XXVII. A house of cards. It is a curious thing that the advent of a Conservative ministry in England should have brought with it a series of illustrations of the obsoleteness and decay of the House of Lords. Mr. Gladstone, the foremost statesman of England, once declined an earldom. On the other hand, Sir Stafford Northcote was transferred from the House of Commons to the House of Lords, in order to lay him on the shelf, and the process was described in the newspapers as Sir Stafford's snub, and as being kicked upstairs. It came out, about the same time, that Lord Salisbury himself, the Premier of the new Conservative ministry, had always disliked the House of Lords, and had once seriously consulted counsel as to the practicability of resigning his peerage and returning to the louse of Commons. When we add to this the general regret felt, not only in America, but in England, when Alfred Tennyson, the poet, became Baron Tennyson d'eyncourt, it certainly seems as if the English
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
tt, Lucretia, 47, 179. Muller, Max, 26. Murfree, M. N., 225, 259, 263. musical woman, The Missing, 249. N. Napoleon. See Bonaparte. Napoleon, Louis, 101. Napoleons, dynasty of the, 98. Nausikaa, 8, 11. Nervousness of men, the, 238. New theory of language, the, 181. Newcome, Ethel, 55. Newell, W. W., 13. Newport, R. I., life at, 71, 98. Nicknames in college, 275. Nightingale, Florence, 19. Nithisdale, Countess of, 56. Normandy, a scene in, 201. Northcote, Sir, Stafford, 136. Norton, Andrews, 18. Norton, C. E., 18. novels: men's and women's, 156. Nursery, a model, 264. O. Odyssey, Palmer's, 248. Opie, Amelia, 157. Orestes, 44. Organizing mind, the, 146. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, quoted, 211, 232. Outside of the shelter, 7. P. Paganini, Nicolo, 238. Palma, Jacopo (Vecchio), 307. Palmer, Professor G. H., 248. Parnell, C. S., 272. Parochialism, 222. Patience quoted, 51. Peabody Museum of American Archaeolog
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54: President Grant's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart's disability.—Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.—Motley, minister to England.—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson-Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England.—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. (search)
Earl Russell and Lord Clarendon, by letters to Mr. Adams (Nov. 2 and Dec. 2, 1865), formally closed the discussion by refusing to entertain further the consideration of our claims. Lord Stanley modified this position (Nov. 30, 1866, March 9 and Nov. 10, 1867), only to the extent of expressing a willingness to consent to a limited reference. The purpose of the speech was to insure a permanent peace, and such too was its effect. On this point there is the indisputable authority of Sir Stafford Northcote, who, while serving at Washington on the Joint High Commission, wrote as follows:— 1311 K Street, April 27, 1871. My dear Mr. Sumner,—I have to thank you for sending me your speech on the Johnson-Clarenden treaty. It is one which I am glad to possess for many reasons, not the least of which is that it marks an epoch, perhaps the turning point, in the great controversy which I am sanguine enough to think is now approaching its termination. I cannot tell you how cordially
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
oar, Judge Nelson, and G. H. Williams; the British commissioners were Earl de Grey (afterwards Marquis of Ripon), Sir Stafford Northcote (afterwards Lord Iddlesleigh), Professor Mountague Bernard, Sir Edward Thornton, and Sir John Macdonald. Just theople, and that it was very important to have his co-operation in the final result. Two of them—Earl de Grey and Sir Stafford Northcote—had brought letters to him, the former from the Duke of Argyll, and the hitter from Thomas Baring. The senator a told me that without my speech the treaty could not have been made, and that he had worked by it, as a chart. Sir Stafford Northcote's letter to Sumner stating that the latter's speech in April, 1869, was the turning point, has been given. (Ante,se the amount of damages belongs to the evidence, and will be considered at Geneva. Sumner had pleasant letters from Northcote and Earl de Grey after their return, both of whom would have been glad to go further in making new and better rules, i
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58: the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature.—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the Virginius case.—European friends recalled.—1872-1873. (search)
nal short walk or drive, and leading, as he said, a tranquil existence, seeing friends, and amusing himself with books. He kept his thoughts as far as might be from public business, and suspended annotations and proof-reading on his Works. His mind found most relief in the calls of friends, with whom he was always ready for a talk. Among his English callers at this time were the Earl of Dunraven (introduced by Francis Lawley of the Daily Telegraph), Lewis Clifford (introduced by Sir Stafford Northcote), Sir George Broderick (introduced by James Bryce), and A. Rutson (introduced by Mountague Bernard). They were apt to draw him out on his last visit to Europe, and particularly on his interviews with eminent Frenchmen,—topics which were altogether agreeable to him. Some brought their wives and daughters, to whom, while he took them through his house, he explained the treasures of book and manuscript which he had brought home. His good nature and attractive ways at such times are wel
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 25: (search)
this continent as a preliminary to any further negotiation. Needless to say no such proviso appeared in the compact or was ever proposed to any British representative. Rose returned to England, and immediately afterward Lord de Grey, Sir Stafford Northcote, and Professor Mountague Bernard, of Oxford University, together with Sir John MacDonald, at that time Canadian Premier, and Sir Edward Thornton were appointed commissioners on the part of Great Britain to settle all outstanding difficulte British representation, but to this Fish objected, because he said Bright was so committed to the American view that his action would have less weight in England. Lord de Grey, afterwards Lord Ripon, was a member of Gladstone's cabinet, and Northcote, afterward Lord Iddesleigh, belonged to the opposition. The American commissioners were the Secretary of State, General Schenck, the newly appointed Minister to England, Judge Nelson of the Supreme Court (a Democrat), ex-Attorney-General Hoar,