member for Shipley will ever be able to pay." There the words stand--in the immensity of their vulgarity, in their unsurpassable degradation, let them lie.
[Sidenote: The first fence.] Finally, May 10th saw the first fence taken.

The genial and gentle T.W.
Russell proposed the removal from the Bill of the Second Chamber--the Chamber specially created for the protection of the loyal minority.

With similar and strange unscrupulousness, the Tories all trooped into the lobby against their own principles.

They were accompanied by a few foolish Radicals--indeed, it was the hope of detaching a sufficient number of Radicals to place the Government in a minority which produced the Tory apostasy from their own principles.

There was a little uncertainty as to the result, and everybody expected that the Government majority would have been reduced to a dangerously low figure.