... observe that the really serious danger to the Church was to be detected not so much in the desertion of the bishops by the Whigs as in the desertion of their wigs by the bishops. R ithin thirty years • wig-wearing prelate becomes a rarity. A similar though ...

... through before midnight. The other House was grave and patriotic, but the special fatality which throws these burdens on the Whig party had to be noticed, and the opportunity was not lost. Both Howes did their duty : so did the electric telegraph; so did ...