... we have been of late under jelly-fish rulers is a fact on all sides admitted. But between live jelly-fish and jelly-tish that have been boiled there is what may be called, even in this case, a ‘‘ vital’’ difference. The live creature “‘ yields to pressure ...

... A JELLY-FISH GOVERNMENT. | The principal characteristic of the its adaptability to certain kinds © stances, It swims or floats near the of the water; it swings to and fro Wt e wave: it travels with the tide in W vy be going m It direction the tide may ...

... used is not dummy, but a veritable golden calf stolen from private premises. It would be too much to expect the Head the jelly-fish Government to avoid the superlative of that for which in its positive aspect he felt a noble scorn ! ...

... better to devote himself to the question how it came that the Liberals and Local Optionists who met the other week at the “Jelly-fish’’ Aquarium banquet managed to consume such a quantity of wine. These 1,800 gentlemen, it has been repeatedly stated with- ...

... in terror of the Caucus are content to forego any claim to backbone, if they are willing to resign themselves to be mere jelly-fish politicians, waiting placidly for what each changing tide may bring them, is that any reason why members of the English ...

... the Duke of Argyll denounce not only the Bill but the Government, which latter body he did not hesitate to compare to a jelly-fish, without backbone or principle, a dascription which we may confidently accept from a man who has had such exceptional o ...

... important topic touched upon during the campaign. And yet Mr. Laing was beaten. His friends shrunk from supporting such a jelly-fish and the opponents of the policy to which he was ready to accord such an unthinking support were stirred into something ...

... will note the wail which comes to us to-day from Newfoundland. On the ** happy hunting grounds ” of the Cod Fishery the Jelly-fish policy is nd appreciated. The present writer happened to spend the greater part of a month in daily company with a late ...

... will be rewarded for prompt interference by an equally prompt piece of concession on our nd yet ‘they sayjwe have not a jelly-fish Government. he exhibition of patents and musical in- struments, which is to succeed the Healtheries at South Kensington ...

... determination which must go far to convince the Radicals that in dealing with the Conservatives they are not dealing with a jelly-fish party. There is something extremely neat and appropriate his declaration that it is an entire mistake to suppose that the ...

... any policy. Mild laws vigorously worked are, notoriously, more effective than Draconian methods placed at the option of jelly-fish politicians. And when Mr. STONE, after the adverse vote in the House of Commons over the right of search at night ostentatiously ...

... her of the frolicsome Then ki And sea-Thew | Ba! ha!” i As she sailed away on the To her home oer ng wind rage, And the jelly.fish qui And the star- spread all her fi And sighed for her grandmothers’ days. ingers abroad, “ pee “Fie! fie!” the ron end ...