Even at Newmarket the race is not always to the swift, and in English politics it is almost always to the slow. Tell the bead-roll of Prime Ministers for a hundred years from 1688, and for one really great man you will find half a dozen of the smallest. Lord Chatham was -never two years consecutively First Minister, and dull Henry Pelham (who had beaten all the fine qualities of Carteret") was for more than ten years his chief, as well as Henry Fox's and Lord Mansfield's. Lord North, who at the best only " climbed into excellence," was for twelve eventful years Premier. —Viscount Strangford. A popular German song runs as follows :—" Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, you know we'll do what'er you please. We'll promise to renounce tho sin of Bourbon, brandy, rum, and gin ; and go so far as to refrain (except when tempted) from champagne : but have some mercyi do, my dear, and leave, oh! leave us lager beer "
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2037, 15 July 1875, Page 3
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164Untitled Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2037, 15 July 1875, Page 3
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