... constitution and of the country find it neces- sary to oppose bitterly the proposals of a Radical Government. The deplorably jelly-fish con- dition of the Administration adds to the duty of opposition a need for continual watchfulness and suspicion: there ...

... men of every party at home, from the foreign press of all shades of opinion, comes the same demand-' Let us have no more jelly-fish policy ; put some back-bone into your resolu- tibns, and undo the mischief you have created.' If, as Lord SALISBuRY said ...

... made them possible, and we are now at the beginning of the end. -The new Tenant's Compensation Bill is one more example of jelly-fish legislation. It is a character- istic of recent procedure that vital principles in new measures have been accepted in the ...

... to a very small number of peisons. Mr GILLrTT seconded the previous question. He re- garded Mr Whitehead as a municipal jelly-fish, owing to his having suddenly ahanged his views on this question. Only a short time ago he was strongly opposed to a market ...

... hack-hone (applause). The presezrt Goverament had not so long ago been stigma. tised by one of their own members as a Cabinet of jelly-fish - Qaughter) -and he (the Colonel) thought the appellation a just and true one (applause). Wherever they might travel on ...

... him if oysters, strictly speaking were fisb, Certainly not he at once replied, They are acephalous molluses. And jelly-fish, said I, Are Meduswe, said he. And I confess he left me as wise as ever. Such things don't usually come within the range ...

... Mr Gladstone would, that they would add vigour to his constitutional feeling, more vigour and backbone, and less of the jelly-fish to his nature, as the Duke of Argyll had styled him (laughter). He had not the pleasure of meeting Lord Salisbury although ...