The Queen's Speech on proroguing Parliament very fairly took up the threads of the legislation of the past ..
... In manner, also, the docu- ment contrasted favourably with the forcible-feeble inflated, and sometimes absolutely ungrammatical paragraphs in which the Gladstone Ministry heralded the coming, or paraded the concluded business, of successive gatherings of the Legislature. It cannot be said of the late Session that Ministers, although suddenly called upon, have thrown away opportuni- ties. ...