THE HUMOURS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
"I hear a twinkle in that quarter," said Sir Patrick O'Brien in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening, and the five hundred members present roared with laughter. But, really, metaphors of the mixed order are becoming quite common in the House of late. Only a few evening ago, Mr Broderick, in opposing the Franchise Bill, spoke of it as " a leap in the dark to which the former one was but a flea-bite." Mr Chaplain said that "no sane people outside of Bedlam" could approve of some of the propositions of the Prime Minister. Lord George Hamilton, wishing to deny that Sir Michael Hicks Beach founded some of his arguments on mere newspaper reports, said that was not the case, that his right hbn. friend bad investigated the matter for himself, and was "standing on his own bottom." And Mr Gladstone" told a right lion, member of the Opposition that "there was no use in his attempting; to shake his head■,in the teeth of his own declarations." How delighted the spirit of Sir Boyle Roche must have been if it were hovering anywhere about the British legislative assembly, on overhearing observations so well calculated to bring back the tender " memory of the past."
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4908, 2 October 1884, Page 3
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211THE HUMOURS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4908, 2 October 1884, Page 3
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