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When Sir Robert Peel tried to abolish the Tory Common Laws, Disraeli opposed him as leader of that party. In that capacity, he succeeded in attaining his goal,--the prime ministership. After the passage of the Reform Bill, his party went out of power. But the year 1874 again found him prime minister, this time as the one who should develop the Imperialist policy. Yet, in spite of his apparent vacillation, he was never suspected of outright unscrupulousness, gaining as a leader both power and respect, and adding many new territories to the English Empire...
...Marquis of Bute has been reelected lord rector of the University of St. Andrews. His opponent was Viscount Peel, late speaker of the House of Commons...
...first meeting of the year of the Mermaid Club was held last evening in 35 Hastings. "David and Bethsheba," by George Peele, was read by the club and criticised by R. H. E. Starr L. S. Selections were also read from another of Peel's plays, "The Old Wives' Tale...
STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER, President.ENGLISH 14.- For November 5, students in English 14 will please read Greene's James the Fourth and Peel's David and Bethsake. It will be well to read also Greene's Friar Bacon or Orlando Furioso, or Feel's Edward I, or Old Wives' Tale...
...first volume of a new series, "Twelve English Statesmen," published by Macmillan and Co., has just appeared. The illustrious twelve are: William the Conqueror, Henry II., Edward I., Henry VII., Wolsey, Elizabeth, Oliver Cromwell, William III., Walpole, Chatham, Pitt, and Peel. Among the contributors to the series are: E. A. Freeman, F. York Powell, M. Creighton, Frederick Harrison, and John Morley...