... spiteful. Apropos of these displays, Mr Gladstone summed up their merits and demerits in the simple remark that you were a jelly-fish. ...

... Your heart is oftener in your mouth than else- where, and you could fancy your stomach had changed to something like a jelly-fish. The appointments of the small cabin are unimpeachable in their elegance, but by anatural affinity of material they remind ...

... it has become merely an instrument for registering the will of reactionary administrators and of hiding the weakness of jelly-fish statesmen. There is a charming euphemism employed to describe the process whereby representa- tive institutions are thus ...

... like a fairy glass slipper, about an inch long, wiihout heels, and exquisitely fringed and finished off. It belongs to the jelly-fish tribe, and was alive and well when we saw it. The dining-room is thp, one room of the house preserved, but with difficulty ...

... Committee had upon it at least five sturdy Tories, the numbers being eight Liberals and five Tories. Up to last November the jellyfish of the Council, Mr Trounce—he wished he were then present to hear what was being said-was a party to almost everything that ...

... political factor. The tradesmen who are patronised and favoured by the landed gentry contribute another contingent of the jelly-fish politicians who voted Tory. Con- science, love of freedom and justice, must take aback seat, when by bowing down there ...

... insolence of church. Religion will not commend itself to the masses so IOllg as its professors shudder in the presence of a jellyfish and recognise in science not its loving sister but an enemy to be crushed. (5) Sentiment and enthusiasm are becoming obsolete ...

... to put up some glib-tongued Tory to move a smooth amendment so rounded and polished in its phraseology as to enable the jelly-fish class of politicians to bolt it without grinning. Accordingly, last night, the candid friend of the Go- vernment appeared ...

... social life. He gave the world to understand that when he left, the verte- bral column had been discarded, and nothing but jellyfish nature remained behind. It was to him a marvel that the Ministry could continue to exist without him, and he could not refrain ...

... y measure. This is not the kind of thing that invertebrate animals are accustomed to do or capable of doing. The Duke's jelly-fish won't wash. But it served its purpose for the moment and rounded off a clever speech. After this there was a long blank ...

... down at Grief. We have the assurance of a dignitary of the Church of England that Anglicanism has too many clergymen of the jelly-fish order in its pale. Alderman Jones is all backbone. He is very much like those wretched English at Copenhagen (as the Danes ...

... wrote:—A police magistrate, indeed I should as soon think of appl\ ing_to the police inagi.-trate to protect me fr ...