There was a dominant and almost monotonous grey in their appearance; but there was little of grey in their looks.

When at once there burst from the Tory and Unionists Benches a loud, wild, prolonged huzzah, it was seen that this theatrical little entrance at one and the same time of Joe and Mr.Balfour, was their method of accentuating the Tory triumph in Linlithgow.

The two gentlemen seen entering together separated as they walked up the floor--the Tory going to his place on the front Opposition Bench, the Unionist to his corner seat on the Liberal side.

It was a very skilfully arranged bit of business, though there were critics who thought its histrionic element a little out of place in the sombre and solemn realities of public life, and a great national controversy.

In the midst of it all I looked at Mr.Gladstone.It is in such moments that you are able to get a glimpse into all the great depths of this extraordinary nature.