Netherfield Park Revisited (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
The Prime Minister, with his able Chancellor Gladstone and his enlightened Foreign Minister Lord Russell, believed it was in England’s interest to take up the Italian cause and did so most assiduously throughout the year and into the next. In the lobbies and corridors of Westminster, the names of Count Cavour and Garibaldi were heard more often and spoken with greater regard than were those of the working class leader John Bright or the champion of individual liberty, John Stuart Mill. It appeared as though neither the improvement of the conditions of the artisans and their families nor the freedom of the individual had for Palmerston the same urgency as the need to gain for Britain an advantage in Europe, through the support of Italian unification. Jonathan Bingley, whose interest in foreign affairs was far outweighed by his desire to press for Reform of the electoral laws, which still prevented most working class men and all women from voting, found little to interest him in the matters that absorbed the time and effort of the Parliament.
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