... 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 ...

... years the surrender had been all on the side of those who invented the franchise. In 1859 Lord Derby's Government gave the Whig party the opportunity of repenting that decision, and everybody knew how they availed themselves of it. The £lO borough franchise ...