In a few sentences, Mr.Morley made mince-meat of the whole attack: showing that crime, instead of increasing, had actually diminished in Clare since he had come into office, and that Mr.Balfour and coercion had completely failed to do even as much as he had done.
Mr.Balfour made a somewhat feeble reply.

And finally, in spite of a strong whip, the Tories were beaten by forty-five--the normal Liberal majority.
[Sidenote: The loosing of the winds.] But all this was but the preface to uglier and worse work which was to come later on.

Supply is the happy hunting-ground of obstructives.

The questions there are small, and so easily comprehended, that even the dullest man can talk about them, and it requires--as I have said above--not intellect, but temperament.

For nearly four hours there was a discussion on an item of L100, which had been spent on improving the accommodation of the House of Commons.