The miners had come down in full force to demand a legal eight hours.

Sam Woods, of the Ince Division, on the one side, John Burns, of the Battersea Fields, on the other, frowned on the Old Man and bade him surrender.

Behind him sat the great Princes of Industry--silent, but none the less militant, fierce, and minatory; opposite him was Lord Randolph Churchill, ready to raise the flag of Social Democracy and to wave it before the advancing masses against the Liberal party.

Out of this difficulty, Mr.Gladstone rescued himself with all that perfect, that graceful ease which he most displays when situations are most critical.

The debate was further made remarkable by a speech from Lord Randolph Churchill, who, amid the grim and ominous silence of the Tory Benches, thundered against Capital and Capitalists in tones for which Trafalgar Square or the Reformers' Tree would be the appropriate environment; and then came the remarkable division, with 279 for the Bill and 201 against.
[Sidenote: Hull Again.] This was not the only victory which Labour was able to win in the course of this week.