It is ever thus in the House of Commons.

You can never tell how things are going to turn out, except to this extent--that passion inevitably exhausts itself; and that accordingly, when there has been a good deal of fire and fury one day, or for a few days, there is certain to come a great and deadly calm.

Uganda is not a subject that excites anybody but Mr.Labouchere and Mr.Burdett-Coutts; and even on them it has a disastrous effect.

Mr.Burdett-Coutts is always dull; but Uganda makes him duller than ever.

Labby is usually brilliant; while he discoursed on Uganda he actually made people think Mr.Gladstone ought to have made him a Cabinet Minister--he displayed such undiscovered and unsuspected powers of respectable dulness.
[Sidenote: Still the seats.] Nevertheless, there was still room for excitement and drollery in the perennial question of the seats.