Leaves from the Diary of Henry Greville Volume . 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...that he was an 'advocate of the dagger, ' and Disraeli called attention to the real point for their consideration, and contended that it was a very grave matter that a member of the Government should boast of his intimacy with a man like Mazzini, who professes an organised system of assassination, and that Sir Laurence Palk was entirely justified in making the inquiry he had done, and that Layard's answer was very unsatisfactory. This affair has made a very bad impression, and damaged this already weak Government. There is a very good article in to-day's 'Times' on this case. I have heard, but know not if it is true, that Mr. Stansfeld married Mazzini's niece. Thursday, March 17.--Dined at Charles Wood's. Amongst others I met Lord Stanley, who speaks English with a strong Lancashire dialect or accent. Everyone was full of an awful catastrophe at Sheffield, of which I subjoin the details from the 'Times.' I do not, as a rule, publish in this book the extracts from newspapers, but in elucidation of the last paragraph I quote the opening sentences from the 'Sunday Times' of March 20, 1864: 'In our latest edition last week we gave a brief account of a dreadful catastrophe which had occurred at midnight on the preceding Friday at Sheffield, where a reservoir, situated among the hills west of the town, nearly a hundred acres in extent, a mile in length, and calculated to hold 114,000,000 cubic feet of water, suddenly burst its embankments, and the water, rushing down the narrow gorge of the neighbouring hills, overwhelmed the valleys beneath, and, pouring into Sheffield itself, destroyed in its way 250 lives and property valued at more than half a million.'--Ed. All the members of the National Party in Denmark and those who are favourable to the continuance of the...