I wonder that men who have been long in Parliament do not acquire a better coup d'oeil for numbers.

The House, when only the Ayes were in it, looked to me a very fair House,--much fuller than it generally is even on debates of considerable interest.

I had no hope, however, of three hundred.

As the tellers passed along our lowest row on the left hand side the interest was insupportable,--two hundred and ninety-one,--two hundred and ninety-two,--we were all standing up and stretching forward, telling with the tellers.

At three hundred there was a short cry of joy,--at three hundred and two another,--suppressed however in a moment; for we did not yet know what the hostile force might be.