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on the Continent gave occasion for new and 

 striking manifestations of the species of foreign 

 policy that was already associated with the 

 name of Lord Palmerston. His Lordship s sym 

 pathy and support went out to those who felt 

 themselves to be victims of oppression with 

 a degree of vehemence and ostentation that 

 varied directly as the square of their distance 

 from London. The Italians and the Magyars 

 received strong encouragement in their efforts 

 to escape from the Hapsburgs; the French 

 republicans were tolerated in freeing themselves 

 from Louis Philippe, but were relegated to the 

 clutches of Napoleon III with much satisfaction; 

 the English Chartists and the Irish Repealers 

 were, of course, summarily suppressed. What 

 ever the defects or inconsistencies of Palmer- 

 ston s conduct of the Foreign Office, it was 

 enthusiastically supported by British popular 

 sentiment. It appealed effectively to the jingo 

 istic spirit of a generation that had known only 

 &quot;little wars.&quot; It was aggressive, but with a 

 strongly liberal leaning in the immediate ends 

 in view; its heaviest demonstrations were di 

 rected against the Russian Czar and the Aus 

 trian Emperor, whose sins with respect to their 

 subjects were aggravated by a presumed hos- 



