Note 82 — Chapter XX · EMPRESS OF INDIA.

Mr. Disraeli was blamed for ungenerous discourtesy to Lord Hartington on his first appearance as Opposition Leader. But there was a good justification for the Premier’s contemptuous reply. Lord Hartington’s taunts were foolishly factious, because he had, in a speech at Lewes (21st of January), already defended the Tory Government for not attempting to undo Liberal work, which was, as he put it, “irrevocable.”