But in the calculation of details an ignorance was exhibited which passed the bounds of decency.

Mistakes of five or six per cent are, in these complex affairs, not only to be expected but almost to be desired; they help to depress ministerial cocksureness.

But in this case there was an error of 200 per cent, a circumstance which incidentally established in the English mind a pleasing legend of Irish dishonesty.

The Insurance Bill was ushered in with greater prudence.

The "government," recognising its own inability to lead opinion, had the grace to refrain from misleading it.