... birches to swish smartly : New bounds, new schools, new cribs, new rules, Gowns partly new, turn'd partly. No cut-and-dried Whig fossil : No dead-alive old Tory : As little of the Russell, As the Stanley of old story : No Gladstone, though he mixes Hues ...

... the Conservative elements of the constitution as affecting the House of Commons surrendered ? Certainly not. It was only the Whig borough franchise of 1832 that had disappeared (cheers). Was it the Conservatives who had surrendered that £lO borough franchise ...