Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, vol 1

s, those impudent evasions which form the party weapons of desperate and unscrupulous men.

All the speeches in these volumes have been revised by Mr. Bright. The Editor is responsible for their selection, for this Preface, and for the Index at the close of the second volume.

JAMES E. THOROLD ROGERS.

OXFORD, June 30, 1868.

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The Second Edition of these volumes is an exact reprint of the first, certain obvious errors of the press only having been corrected.

OXFORD, Dec. 21, 1868.

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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

INDIA.

I. House of Commons, June 3, 1853

II. House of Commons, June 24, 1858

III. House of Commons, May 20, 1858

IV. House of Commons, August 1, 1859

V. House of Commons, March 19, 1861

CANADA.

I. House of Commons, March 13, 1865

II. The Canadian Fortifications. House of Commons, March 23, 1865

III. The Canadian Confe