This is the answer to those who contend that because there will be always Tories and Whigs, it makes no difference what changes we make.

The answer is Sir Albert Rollit; he is a Tory, but the Tory of to-day is pretty much the same as the Radical of a few years ago.
[Sidenote: The Registration Bill.] The Government brought forward the first of their Bills, and at once the Tory Democrat showed what he was.

For Mr.Fowler was able to quote opinions from Tories quite as favourable to reform of registration as from Radicals, and several Tories stood up to speak in favour of the measure.

Opposition was really left to poor Mr.Webster, of St.Pancras; but, then, everybody knew what poor Mr.Webster meant, and nothing could better express the lowliness of the Tory party than that opposition to anything should be led by the hapless representative of St.Pancras.

The consequence of all this was that the Registration Bill passed in the course of a few hours--the debate illumined by an excellent maiden speech from our John Burns--delivered in that fine, manly, deep voice of his--which always makes me think of a skipper on the hurricane deck in the midst of rolling seas and a crashing storm.