to hate persons than to love them. It is more exciting, and also puts you on an apparently higher moral plane. I always like Moore's lines:

'Thus, whether we're on or we're off,
Some mystery seems to await thee:
To love thee were pleasant enough,

But oh! 'tis delicious to hate thee.

'When the Election was won, and the Poll was declared from the Hustings in the Carlisle Market-Place, no one who was present will ever forget the scene. As far as the As far as the eye could reach, the Square and converging streets were crammed with the excited multitude. The figures were read out-Sir James stood forward. He waited for some minutes till the thunder of cheering had subsided. It must be remembered that one of the electioneering charges against him had been that he was a weathercock. Looking all around and looking up he said clearly and deliberately-"The weathercock is at the head of the Poll." Such a yell of delight that followed I never heard before and shall never hear again. Then he proceeded"The Yellow mist is dispelled-the sun shines fair on Carlisle wall-all is Blue overhead "-and so on.

'I followed with something or other, and then off we marched to the big room in the Coffee House where Sir James again thanked his supporters, and I also said my little say. Alluding to Mr. Hodgson, the defeated Tory Candidate, and how we should still keep an eye on him, I said that a gentleman saw a boy hitting another who was down, and remonstrated with him for hitting an antagonist who was down-to which the boy replied "Ah, but you don't know how much trouble I had to get him down!"'

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so much excuse. We were supposed to have a majority in the new House of Commons. I say supposed, because a Liberal majority is not like a Tory one-" without variableness or shadow of turning," but has always in it doubtful elements, of which you can't be quite sure till the Division

comes.

'This is in the nature of things, and not to be unnecessarily complained of. The hackneyed saying in comparing Liberals to Tories is correct" There are all sorts of ways of going on, but only one way of standing still."

'As usual also there were dissensions in the Liberal Party. A great effort was made to pull that Party together, and a meeting was called for the 3rd of June at Willis's Rooms. The trouble, I believe, was whether Palmerston or Lord John Russell was to be Prime Minister in the event of our turning out the Tories, and I well remember the burst of cheering when on Lord John Russell coming in and advancing to the platform, which was about two feet high, Lord Palmerston, who was already on it, extended his hand, and gave Lord John a slight help up. This, I suppose, was held to indicate unity. The meeting passed off well enough-a little grumbling (there could not be a Liberal meeting without some grumbling), but a general agreement that the great duty of the moment was to turn out the Tory Government. So Lord Hartington was entrusted with the amendment to the Address which if carried would effect this purpose.'

The Speech from the Throne was delivered by the Queen in person on the 7th of June. The Amendment to the Address, which Lord Hartington moved, was simply a declaration of want of confidence in the Ministers. He did it well,' writes Lawson, for, whatever one may think of Lord Hartington (now Duke of Devonshire) it must be admitted that he almost always talks common sense. The Debate raged for three or four nights. Disraeli made a great speech in defence of the