text:  It was all very well when we were in power and it was suited to party purposes to run down any thing we had done and to represent as valueless any acquisition on which we may have prided ourselves--it was all very well to raise an outcry against the Affghan expedition and to undervalue the great advantages which the possession of the country was calculated to afford us--but I trust the Government will rise above any consideration of that sort and that they will give the matter their fair dispassionate and deliberate consideration