stateswomanlike

It was Mrs. Chatterly, then, who guided the helm; and, truth to say, managed in the most stateswomanlike manner the vessel of “haut ton,” all obsequious personages being justly elevated to the higher posts of fashion, whilst those who were uncivil were very appropriately struck off the “civil list.”[…]We hasten, therefore, to a consideration of the acts of the administration, and, as is the language of the journals, we congratulate the Hon. Premier on the able and skilful, and stateswomanlike and constitutional manner in which she managed affairs during last session;[…].