Note 134 — Chapter XXI · THE REIGN OF JINGOISM.

Lord Houghton, as a supporter of the Ministerial Foreign Policy, said:—“Even if the surrender which we are required to make according to this document is one to which the country would give its consent, it would have been better that the fact should have appeared at the Congress than that it should have been made known by this paper [the Globe]. It now stands before the world that England did not go into the Congress with free hands, but before going into it had made a contract, and had, in the main, abandoned some of the most important points which I and other Members of the House considered it was the duty of this country to insist upon.”—Hansard, Vol. CCXL., p. 1569 et seq.