It will be seen presently how he helped to save the Government it was his duty to destroy.

No; the danger of the situation came not from the Tory, but from the Liberal benches.

There are in the Liberal, as in every party of the House, a number of young and new members who have not yet learned the secret and personal springs of action, and who, moreover, do not at once realize the vast underlying issues on an apparently small question.

To them the Liberal intriguers against the Government had steadily and plausibly addressed themselves, and many of them were under the impression that the question raised by Dr.Hunter would decide nothing more serious than the special purpose to which one day of the Session could be devoted.
[Sidenote: A coming storm.] But anybody with the slightest acquaintance with the House of Commons would have soon perceived that matter of much greater pith and moment was at stake.

The Senior Ministerial Whip is the danger-signal of the House of Commons; and the danger-signal was very much in evidence.