Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . rn States; he alsobehaved with dignity and promptitude when Captam \ kforcibly took the Confederate envoys. Mason and S idell, t onithe British mail steamer Trent. But a better understandingwith the American Minister, Mr. Adams, would have peveiitedthe departure of the privateer Alabama from the dockyard inwhich she had been built to swoop upon the Northernersmerchantmen, and thereby Earl Russell brought upo
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . rn States; he alsobehaved with dignity and promptitude when Captam \ kforcibly took the Confederate envoys. Mason and S idell, t onithe British mail steamer Trent. But a better understandingwith the American Minister, Mr. Adams, would have peveiitedthe departure of the privateer Alabama from the dockyard inwhich she had been built to swoop upon the Northernersmerchantmen, and thereby Earl Russell brought upon hiscountry a heavy reckoning (p. 525). He was hardly moie 358 THE RULE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS. [1846 fortunate in his treatment of European aflfi\irs. His remon-strances on behalf of Poland brought upon him the mostunmistakable of snubs from Prince Gortschakoff. He wentdangerously near promising assistance to the Danes when, on there-opening of the Schleswig-Holstein question after the death ofFrederick VII., they were menaced by the allied forces of Prussiaand Austria. When he found that the Emperor of France, dis-gusted by his refusal to send British representatives to a projected. THE SEIZURE OP THE CONFEDERATE ENVOYS, IStil.{Uepmlucal by }>crmission, of the proprietors of the Illustrated London Kens.) Congress for the revision of the Treaty of Vienna, declined tostir, ho had to wriggle out of his undertakings as best he needed all Palruerstons tact to avoid a Government Much to the disgust of the Radicals, the sessions were almost Politics. barren of legislation. Lord Westbury, the Lord Chancellor,carried a Bankruptcy Bill, but his legal reforms were cut shortby his enforced resignation on a Parliamentary censure ofhis mode of administering his patronage. Earl Russell washumoured l)y being allowed to Iiring in a Reform Bill, but therewas no demand for it, and it died in committee. Mr. GladstonesBudgets, on the other band, put an abundant revenue toexc
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