PREFACE. SOME YEARS AGO in a great Chinese Exhibition there were three large figures, representing the Past, the Present, and the Future. In the Speeches and Dispatches contained in these volumes will be found some records of the Past. In the Introductions the Past, the Present, and the Future will be noticed. I have here to express my cordial thanks to Mr. Hansard, who has not only permitted me to use his valuable records of Parliamentary Debates, but has also furnished me with many sheets of reports of speeches, which I must otherwise have had copied for correction with much trouble and expense. RUSSELL. SAN REMO: December 1869. REPEAL OF THE TEST AND CORPORATION ACTS (Tuesday, Feb. PETITIONS FOR And against RomAN CATHOLIC CLAIMS (February |