Sentence:  "We scarcely remember to have ever seen any respectable party in a greater state of <WSD>flabbergastation</WSD> than the writer of some observations in Mb. Cobden's Russo-Manchesterian organ, the Morning Star, of Thursday, December the fourth." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.<ref>cite-book