Election Colours.
“It appears to me,” quoth Lord Palmerston, in the debate on Mr. Mellor’s Bribery at Elections Bill, “that is several places the Electors – especially those of the lower class – do not look upon the receipt of a bribe as an offence of that moral dye which we consider it to be.” We should much like to know the colour of the “moral dye” which – to the eye of the House of Commons – invests bribery at Elections. We should be inclined to think it something like an “invisible green.”
Ask the Clerk of the Weather.
A Meteorological article discourses eloquently on the “mean quantity of rain” that fell during the month of January. Our rheumatic recollections prompt us in justice to remark, that the quantity of rain that fell during that aquatic month was far too copious and liberal to deserve such an ignominious epithet as “mean.”
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