We abolished the Aberdeen Cabinet, the ablest we have had, perhaps, since the Reform Act⁠—a Cabinet not only adapted, but eminently adapted, for every sort of difficulty save the one it had to meet⁠—which abounded in pacific discretion, and was wanting only in the “daemonic element”; we chose a statesman, who had the sort of merit then wanted, who, when he feels the steady power of England behind him, will advance without reluctance, and will strike without restraint. As was said at the time, “We turned out the Quaker, and put in the pugilist.”